Riding in the rain
May 2nd, 2009
Recently we were contacted by a woman names Ychiyo from Japan interested in our Sunriver Cycling Tour. We finalized the reservations once she arrive in Central Oregon and spent most of our phone conversation discussing the weather, which was 60% chance of rain on the day she wanted to ride, which was today. We talked again this morning prior to the afternoon tour, both watching it rain while talking. We were having a hard time deciding between trying again tomorrow or be adventurous and attmept to get out and ride today. We chose to be adventurous and I am glad we did – today was a lot of fun!!
Our first stop was Lava Lands Visitor Center. Yesterday they opened a brand new museum and we all really enjoyed it – it was full of facinating info about the lava lands Bend and Central Oregon is surrounded by and had great maps. Then off to the trails we went!
First we had to get ready to ride – helmets, gloves, bike seat heights, go over gears, etc. Yasuko, who was nice enough to be talked into joining us by Ychiyo, had never mountain biked before. Both Yasuko and I realized we did not have the right shoes, I had forgotten my cycling shoes and was in my Dansko clogs and she was wearing Croc slipper-ish shoes. Ychiyo was the smart one in tennis shoes:
Although it has been dumping rain as I drove to pick the women up, it stopped for us for a good portion of the ride. We started our ride checking out Benham Falls and both women could not belive that something so beautiful was not a far drive away in the mountains, but accessable to all the locals and visitors right outside of town. We definately are lucky!
The rest of the ride was great, Yasuko might have realized she is a natural born mountain bikers. We finally waved her on and she took off, with a huge smile obviously enjoying being on a bike. It did rain a little on us, but it was beautiful out on the trail and fire roads, so who can complain!
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@ February 13th, 2010 at 06:10