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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,478
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You're going to have a good time no matter what...
My friend Maria has ridden the 200-mile Seattle to Portland lots of times. She's done the one day, the two day, the one day on a titanium road bike and the one day on a steel single speed, two days on a three speed, yadda yadda.
I guess my point is, you can do it more than once! And you have bike options!
Make a list of the good points of each (speed vs companionship, ruddy adventure vs homogenized status quo, recon vs record, mileage anxiety vs relaxed and ambivalent)
There is no wrong way to approach this event, either way you'll have fun.
(Did you do your sixty miles with any test gear in those panniers, or just water and a few power bars?)
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