2019 131 KM Bloomin' Metric Ride

For some reason or another this year's Bloomin' Metric was being held a month late which was great for me because it's always the same weekend as the Farmer's Daughter Gravel Grinder up in Chatham, NY.  Since it was being held so late and the weather forecast was saying it was going to be a superb day, I decided to ride from my house down to Sherwood Island where I would meet my Dad and do the 40K ride with him and then ride home.

2nd Farmer's Daughter

Will & Nigel

I missed the 2017 & 2018 Farmer's Daughter rides because they were scheduled on the same day as the Bloomin' Metric and I try to ride that event every year with my father.  This year, the Bloomin Metric moved to June, thus opening up an opportunity for me to ride the Farmer's Daughter again. 

Almost a Dirty Thirty

Relive 'Almost a Dirty Thirty'

A nice day at the beach

Relive 'A nice day at the beach'

Fat Bike on a Mini Cooper Countryman

The other day I picked up a barely used OEM Mini branded bike rack to match the other one and to carry my mountain bike. It's actually a Thule rack. I got the Thule Fat Bike adapters but found that there were some slight variances between the molding on the rack vs the adapters, but I was able to get them fit. The one thing that gave me a problem was the fact that my Cannondale Cujo has such a high bottom bracket that I had to play around with the tire holders to get the bike to be held snugly.  Finally, I got it set right and test drove it on the highway at 70 mph and it held fine!