Recovery Round Trip To Bussey's & Nytro

After hours at the keyboard working on projects, it's time to get out of Dodge! Left after the sun was well up, but still wore some arm warmers and a woolie cap. They came off real quick and were packed up front in due order. I headed north and met 3 paceline riders near Champagne Village. At least they waived! Loosened up now, so I cranked er up to 18 and had a easy ride over to Bonsall McDonalds.

The old Moustache Handlebar style

Chatted with 2 older riders there. Short Filipino guy on a TREK and a big guy riding a Giant with the old Moustache handlebar up front.(Years ago, I was really looking at a new '93 Bridgestone RB-1 with those same bars.) Guys said they were going to Escondido as they were packing away the double burgers and fries. I said I was going to Escondido too, but over to Oceanside, Del Mar and around that way! Left westward with no wind help.


No traffic to speak of this late in the morning on the 76. Hit the SLR and hoped to pick up some riding buddies, but that didn't happen. If fact, very lite bike traffic today. Turned off the SLR at Benet St. and climbed up Canyon Dr. Cut over and sneaked into Dan Phillips Auto shop the back way. Box of donuts was still on the counter. None for me this trip. Dan & I talked about the KC-200 on Saturday. Dan wanted to add some carrying straps to the front of his HB bag, so we checked out my SOMA bag set-up. Works great for packing clothes or putting them on while riding. He likes to ride hands-free anyway.

Cruised down the coast to Pacific Coast Cycles to check out the Salsa Fargos and other used wide tire bikes out front. Way out of my used bike price-range. Set up a nice tempo riding south into a slight headwind.Finally caught up to 2 strong road guys and hung on to Encinitas. Stopped off at Nytro and refilled by bottle. Sat outside and watched the riders go by while eating a banana & my cashew-butter/crackers. Joe was selling another hi-end bike. Said hello and rode over to Swami's, where there was a Jamacian trio playing there. Quite good. Not much surfer activity do to low wave height today.

2015 Fargos are in. Gunmetal Grey. Look great!

Stopped at Revolution Bike in Solana Beach to check out the bikes. They had several new Fargos. One grey one with straight front fork. Marked 18" but seemed real tall for me. Felt light. Had Woodchippers and thru axles. Salesman Mick yelled out to me about his blue Fargo. It was parked over in the bike rack. I rode over to check it out. He had all the bottles on the front forks, frame bag, seat bag, front bag. Looks like he was ready for some real bikepacking instead of a commuter bike!

Headed inland and up to Rancho Santa Fe town. Not much rider activity this afternoon on Del Dios Highway into a headwind. No wonder! Cut over on Citracado to Harmony Grove. Came up on a shirtless MTB rider on too small a bike. Said "hi". He looped off by some cars. Looked to me like he was checking to see if any windows were down! Had a nice pace over on Barham and back to San Marcos.

Warm riding today with lite winds from the NE. Kept thinking of Sam Thomas in Albany, NY plowing out in mid-November! Guess he won't be using his new Go-Pro camera any time soon on the bike.

Clear skies
Hi: 73    Lo: 41
71 miles

-randorides