50 States Ride

What do you do when you cannot bike across the country for a second time?  You bike the 50 state streets of course with WABA and hundreds of other local bikers.  Yesterday I finally broke down and replaced the bar tape on my handle bars (after 6500+ miles it was time for a change) and took Bernard apart for a fork to derailleur clean.

This morning it was up bright and early to hit the road and meet up with Steph and some other B&B'ers from other years.  Turns out I put the ride down as an hour earlier than kick off time, but that only left time to get caffeinated and catch up.   Chai latte from Tryst ... don't mind if I do!

At mile 50 we stopped for a final water and banana break and then headed off to conquer the last major hills and wind our way back to Adams Morgan.  If I didn't know any better I would say this could be a picture taken from last summer. 

All of the riders headed over to Mellow Mushroom for the after party; we got there in the nick of time because after we ordered lunch the skies opened.  We decided to stick it out for a while under an umbrella, but headed inside when the pizza showed up (definitely got some stares from everyone inside).

 

All in all a total success!  Steph has a LONG list of things she needs to check out in the District and I have had my third SUS ride this year (exhibit one and exhibit two)!!