RAMROD 2007: Great Success!

[cpirate]

For all those following along at home, RAMROD 2007 went off spectacularly. It was a bit longer than we had been thinking (150 km, 6h23m of riding, and about 8 hours start to finish), and I got a mystery flat at one point, but otherwise everything went right according to plan. The skies, though threatening in the early afternoon, only gave us the

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[_watchtower_]

pssst! Plug adapter was also 'great success!'...Camera battery died after 2 days, hahahaha. Ta!

[mynatt]

Nice!

Maybe some day I'll get to do that... I'm currently thinking of a ride along the seaway canal barrier (check out the long thin strip of land along the south shore of the St. Lawrence, south of Montreal, in google maps).

[cpirate]

As it happens, scjody and I checked that out in person a week ago last Friday. In particular, if you go near the end of the day, you get some spectacular views of the sun setting behind the mountain, with an uncommon perspective on downtown and the Oratory. I imagine the same would be true at sunrise (except with the light hitting the front of downtown), but it's not a sight I'm too likely to see :)

So yeah, it's definitely recommended. Just watch out for headwinds though, they can be pretty brisk around there.

[mynatt]

I was figuring it would be windy, but I was hoping they'd be just from the west, so we'd have a tailwind all the way home.

PS: are you thinking of attending this? http://www.crasseux.com/cm/en/index_en.html

[cpirate]

We did indeed get the tailwind home, but getting out there was a bit soul-crushing.

I'll actually be out of town this Friday, but for some reason I've never gotten into Critical Mass anyway. It just always felt to me like it was mainly an excuse to piss off cars, and wasn't really aiming to do anything constructive. I may well be wrong in that assessment though.