Thanksgiving Post

I was lucky this Thanksgiving to be able to go home to Savannah with a new friend and bring my road bike back. This meant my track bike got a little neglected, but I got a lot of good riding in with my new friend, Paulo, and with Granger.  We averaged four hours a day, except for on Turkey day, when the rain and all of the cooking going on in the house convinced us to stay inside.

 Our first day in Savannah, Wednesday, was spent fixing Granger's VO and hitting up a bunch of trails. A bolt had snapped inside the boss for the downtube shifter. We tried drilling it out, but because it snapped at an angle, the drill bit wouldn't stay centered. To fix this we machined a bushing out of brass to keep the drill bit centered. After getting the VO rolling, we headed out to the Savannah Ogeechee River Canal Trail. The trail was root filled, but had many boardwalks that made up for it. We then headed over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge and explored the rice paddies. It was a perfect day for it, and we got some fantastic views of the port. Thursday we took off, but we were back at it again on Friday. Welland Racing had a team ride in Richmond Hill that we went out to and hammered for a few hours. Richmond hill doesn't have the most scenic routes, but there's no lights and, depending on the road, no cars. Saturday we did the fast group ride and hung out with David Hiatt, and Sunday we did a 100km recovery ride with Granger and David. It was really fun showing someone else around Savannah and it was really interesting to get someone else's perspective on things.