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This coffee shop was super cute. I missed the artwork - perhaps next time.

So glad you found the video! Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Great meeting you on the GAP and later in DC. Your videos are amazing.

Thank you! Just got back from another cool ride along the C&O canal towpath, and the Great Allegheny Passage - check out those videos

Thank you for the kind words and the insightful input.

Thank you! You are very kind. I am very glad folks are enjoying it. You may find my cross country ride videos (especially the one with the voiceover) interesting as well. It highlights a ride I made in 2020, during Covid. I left my home in San Francisco, and rode my bike 3,800 miles to Yorktown, Virginia.

Thank you so much for the kind words. You are correct as to the limited shoulders… however, with proper lights, high visibility vest, and a mirror, one can minimize/manage the risk 😅

@@ofery.603 I do the same!! "however, with proper lights, high visibility vest, and a mirror, one can minimize/manage the risk " heading down the 101 in Oregon for 4.5 days next week! southbound.. cheers.

@@PerfDayTodaysouthbound is indeed the right choice 😅

Thanks so much! The modified braces worked so well that I am about to take a second bikepacking trip with them. This one, is from DC to Pittsburgh.

@@ofery.603 I've done the C&O Towpath several times, in both directions, great ride! Haven't done the Allegheny yet. In DC, there's a swanky bike friendly Hotel at the end of the C&O at the Key Bridge that I stayed at. Rolled my dirty loaded bike right up to the front desk and got a room, and they seemed to think it very natural for someone covered in dried mud with a touring bike to show up.

Small world! As to DC hotel, thank you for the great tip. Luckily I don’t need one - our daughter lives in DC. Will be staying at her swanky place 🤓.

Thank you for the kind words. I had no intention of making the video political at all. I was simply trying to objectively show what was along the route.

Sorry you felt that the video was tarnished. My intent was not to present one political leaning or another, simply to show, as objectively as I could, what one would see along the way.

Sorry, I didn’t see it as you intended it to be seen. I saw similar things the first 3 days of RAGBRAI. I also took pictures of such subject matter but chose not to post them on social media. Thus avoiding negative feelings and conversation. Just my point of view. Nothing more. It is a wonderful way to travel. To get a one on one personal contact with the environment you’re biking through. Happy Trails

Low gear, slow and steady :-); Getting ready for the next adventure GAP and C&O...

During RAGBRAI I rode my rode bike - an older Wilier GTR SL

For the price, the Poseidon has been fantastic!

The music at 14:00 should sound familiar as it is "the gael" from the famous movie "the last mohicans". While scary at times, I am not so sure as to the claims made about the logging truck drivers. I suspect that they are hard working individuals with no affiliation to an OFAC restricted entity :-)

@@ofery.603 thanks. In the 70s and 80s in Humboldt there was a life and death feud between logging companies and environmentalists. the truck drivers categorized bikers as environmentalists and terrorized them every chance they got, by speeding up to and close passing bikes riding through their territory . Extremely intimidating experience. They have been ordered to stop that by corp mgmt since then

I had no idea... Very scary indeed.

Thank you for the kind words. The bike is actually a Poseidon X. As to upgrades - very little... I exchanged the saddle to another one I had (an old but comfortable Specialized saddle) and attached the front fork cages that I made out of leg braces. To see more about how I made those - go to 46:52 in the video.

Well, going the other way, is the smart way to go. I had no choice... :-). You may enjoy my cross-country ride videos - in 2020, I rode from my home in SF to Yorktown, Virginia - a fantastic ride.

I slept like a log 😂.

1. The theme song is called “Iowa Corn Song” by Percy Faith. We're mighty proud of old Des Moines, Yo-ho, yo-ho, yo-ho, Come I-O-WAY and with us join, Yo-ho-yo-ho-yo-ho. We're from I-o-way, I-o-way, State of all the land, Joy on ev'ry hand. We're from I-o-way, I-o-way, That's where the tall corn grows. 2. As to team MORKA: both John & Ofer are from San Francisco, and Chris is from Seattle.

yea bro thats why this shit is ass

I am so sorry to hear about this. May I suggest that your friends contact the local police and ragbrai organizers.

@ofery.603 The video was sent to the Madison County Sheriff. It seems bikers look very similar, so identifying this group of 2-wheeled heathens is difficult.

There are miscreants in every group of course. They may have been using Ragbrai as a cover for sinister intentions. It seems a bit odd that people would come to a Iowa bicycle event for criminal activities. But who knows I could be totally wrong. ATB

day 4 was great. i averaged 17mph for the day across the whole ride. fantastic weather and not *too* many hills.

Not bad. Tomorrow promises to be a tough day 🤪

My view was worse across from them

TBH, had I known the weather would be as crappy as it was, I probably would have worked out at home :-). Looking forward to RAGBRAI

Me too 😮

Sameeee

Wow, thank you so much for the awesome review! It means the world to me. Started training today for my next adventure- RAGBRAI 51. They just announced the route last night…