Trip down to BRA, first ride, weekend
Posted on July 18, 2008
Trip
Left San Diego with some little hick-ups (suitcase busted open 45 minutes before I had to leave) and the cab company knew better and sent me a regular cab instead of the “RESERVED” van, so that i could put my bike in there…. idiots…
In the check in the lady was very nice and *suggested* that I moved 4 lbs out of the bike box and put it in the other suitcases. The tip saved me $350 according to her. Great woman and that goes to show that all it takes is a bit of a nice person to handle your stuff. If it were any under person I would have probably been given the bill, no questions asked.
So bike box was checked in til Guarulhos. Flight was a nightmare, always is. Sitting still for 9 hours but unable to sleep. My patience meter exploded 2 hours into the flight and then every other 20 minutes… Oh well…. Left SD at 11 am got home at 12pm the next day.
First Ride
Did my first harder ride today. The mountains here are caked with iron core, actually the WHOLE freaking mountain is a piece of iron (imagine what kind of crap goes down when there is a lighting storm… where to run). I will take some pictures and send some google coordinates, pretty amazing stuff.
Back to the ride. I hit the motocross single tracks. Pretty knarly stuff. Some really loose iron dust, other, huge pebbles and the occasional packed dust. It was nice, but the climbing was a bit too much. I handled 9.96 miles in 67 minutes. The bike felt pretty good and handling those climbs and descents took some work. I will take the pics this weekend.
Weekend
My sister is going to the US – horrible timing.. I come to visit and she leaves, oh well. I plan on riding early and go ride with some dudes from around here. I think I will get my a$$ kicked, but oh well…
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