Tuesday, May 22, 2007

coal bank ride

Recap of ride last sunday. Shawn and I set out to ride durango to silverton and back, but got turned around at coal bank pass (10,600 ft) d/t a down pour. Met a guy coming back from Molas pass that said he ran into snow up there. We turned around and began the big decent to safer ground below. On the way down my bike began to shake out of control. I was wondering if a wheel got lose or I was sliding on the wet pavement while braking. I stopped and checked out the bike. Nothing wrong. Got back on the bike, and it started again. I couldn't figure it out until I hit a warm patch of air and the shaking stopped. Turned out that I was shivvering so hard that I could barely control my bike. It took 20 minutes for my hands to thaw out when we got to the valley floor. -Got to remember the camera.

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