Montezuma Mesa Express Permanent

Round about route for the Montezuma Mesa Express

At 206 km, this route will meet the monthly rando requirements for the R-12( one 200km route per month for a year). I don't believe I did a 200km permanent this month, so this might be it. I did modify the ride somewhat to accommodate stopping by and seeing Dan Phillips at Bussey Automotive in O'side around opening time of 8:00 AM. Also, the SLR Bike Path was closed at Benet Street, so that worked out good.

After chatting with Dan a bit, I rolled down the coast to Magee Park and chatted with the OFR gruppo waiting to start their ride southward at 8:30. Alan, new guy Eric, Stuart (Kiwi), crazy Doug and Phil Auchter were there too. I rode with them to Swami's, where we met up with 8 other riders. On the ride south, they turned right away at Manchester St and headed inland. Only Alan and I continued on and up Torrey Pines. We chatted about stuff and I tried to coax Alan to stand up sometimes while climbing. He did try that a few times. Never too old to learn. I left Alan at the top of the climb and continued on to SDSU up on the mesa. I took the round-about way via Morena Blvd to escape the Mission Bay traffic.

After the turn-around at MacD's on the mesa, I stopped on the way back at Nytro and chatted with Joe Morgan. We chatted about the bent SOMA frame and also a replacement for my bad FSA carbon cranks on the Fuji. FSA won't do crap without recent receipts ( I never got paper from the FSA replacement crankset 2 years back). Guess that is a dead end and wasted money. Those cranks aren't very good and pull out from the bond with the carbon arms. Joe said his buddy Daryl had a set of compact cranks and he forgot them at home. He would jot a reminder and bring them tomorrow (Friday). Note: I rode over on Friday and he forgot them again! What else is new? They might have to heat the SOMA frame due to the "springiness of the Tange Prestige HT steel. Is something better than nothing?

I took the back way home and forget to get a receipt at Oceanside. I think I only rode 117 miles or so. Oh, well... next time.

-randorides