Pre-pre-Brol ride. Wednesday August 22.

Well this ride was not advertised as flat, but riders were told that there was only one hill of significance. It is called the Escarpment, and it is basically a 300 foot rise in around a 1/2 mile distance. On this ride at the very bottom of said Escarpment there was an incident because the lead riders waffled on the direction at bottom. Which in itself would have been fine, except that no one warned the riders on the hill that all the riders at bottom were stopped. What happened was one of those situations where a rider runs into a rider and someone hits the same rider. No one was injured, but an upright rider (who only had that day off out of the near week of riding) had some spokes break. His ride was finished, and he had to walk the 1/2 mile back up the escarpment. That situation pared our group down to 12 once again. The photos are of the group at various stops along the route. The direction of this ride was the opposite end of the canal, in this ride we picked up two new riders and up'd our size to 14. However at the end of the ride we lost them as they were local and the lunch was in their backyard. Notice the photo of the fish, it was caught by the gentleman holding it with the big smile on his face. That picture was on the end of the fishing peer, at the end of where we had our lunch.

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