Campy Only Does "The Ride" 2007

January 13-16, 2007--We took part with 50+ other cyclists in this year's "The Ride," a 375-mile fast-paced tour down the California coast from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. Four of us--Ike, Peter, Mojo, and Campy Only--rode fixed gears the entire way, making this a "No Coasting" coast ride.

Jump to a Day: Day One Day Two Day Three Post-Ride

	Day One: San Francisco to Seaside 124 miles, 6,000' of climbing
Day Two: Seaside to Morro Bay 127 miles, 8,000' of climbing
	Day Three: Morro Bay to Santa Barbara 126 miles, 6,000' climbing

Total mileage for the weekend was about 375, with roughly 18,000 feet of climbing. This was about half the distance and climbing we'll be doing at Paris-Brest-Paris in seven months.

Day One: San Francisco to Seaside 124 miles, 6,000' of climbing GPS Mapping and Info for Day One	Our Quickbeam waits at the Golden Gate.	Got a little Captain in ya? Mojo does.	Peter unracks		Peace out
Pump up	Nice retro Paramount, fully racked and loaded	Morning sun on the Golden Gate			Gathering at the start
Early coastal scenes.		Surf's up!		Strange building on this knoll.
			Mojo rests in Davenport, our lunch stop on Day One		Cycling keeps you slim. Starbucks in Santa Cruz
Heading for Watsonville		Afternoon shadows	Ike powers on	Bushes
Seaside!		Sunset over Monterey Bay	Day Two: Seaside to Morro Bay 127 miles, 8,000' of climbing GPS Mapping and Info for Day Two	Ready to roll in Seaside	Photo op
Smile!	Leaving Monterey	Peter flatted. Good thing he did, or we would have never caught him			First view of the Big Sur coast
Almost too much scenery to photograph	Ike and Peter on the coast ... but not coasting on their fixed gears		Peter takes a photo of me taking a photo of him
The Bixby Bridge		Our Quickbeam at the Bixby Bridge	View back down the coast of the Bixby Bridge	Video of the surf
			Heading into Big Sur
Breakfast stop at the Big Sur River Inn	Inside the River Inn	We stopped here to watch whales migrating south	Somewhere in this shot is a whale		Another Quickbeam photo
The Rigdon Drinking Fountain, a natural spring that was unfortunately dry on this day	More scenic coastal shots				Gratuitous photo of the Campy Only Guy
Farther down the coast.				First glimpses of Hearst Castle
Elephant seals at Point Piedras Blancas					Off in the distance, hundreds of elephant seals
Informational signage	Yet another Quickbeam shot			Leaviong Cambria
Day Three: Morro Bay to Santa Barbara 126 miles, 6,000' climbing GPS Mapping and Info for Day Three		A somewhat smaller group gets ready on Day Three	Sandy hands out props to the folks who helped make the ride possible		Morro Rock
Another Morro Rock shot	Breakfast at Kitty's Kitchen	Leaving Morro Bay		Hilltop homes in Pismo Beach	Entering Pismo
Sprinting through Guadalupe		We tried to snag a county line sprint, but Peter won out	A dejected Diesel	Cresting a climb on the way to Lompoc	Gratuitous photo of you know who
			Almost the last gratuitous shot	After Lompoc
The coast below Gaviota		Finished!! We beat most of the "gearly bikes" to Santa Barbara		The Diesel, aka the Campy Only Guy. Last gratuitous photo for this ride
	Mojo and Peter	Peter finds that special spot on the Concubine.
Post-Ride: The Trip Back to Davis	At the Santa Barbara Amtrak station	Liquid lunch
Our train arrives--the Coast Starlight		Relaxing on the train
		Suzanne from Chico

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