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Ryan recently purchased a bike,  his is a comfort style bike like mine but a Schwinn.  After riding it on the trace a bit I immediately fell in love with those 700c tires.  Narrow and 85psi drops the rolling resistance and makes it go with less effort.

My first thought was to purchase a set of 700c wheels, but ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow morning Rory and I will depart on the Natchez trace in Ridgeland for Port Gibson MS where we will camp out before riding back the next morning.  Google maps claims it’s about 100km one way,  considering we rode the entire Longleaf Trace in a day which was about 140km, this should be pretty doable.

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So I bought a new bike recently, a 2008 Giant Sedona. So far I’m really liking it. I wanted something that would be good for commuting, riding the trace, and some light offroading and in all 3 respects I’ve been very pleased with it.

With gas on the rise, my car not running, and really just having no good ( Read more... )