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Wutheringbikes Home -- TransAm Bike Ride
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June 27th 2004 (Sun)
Breaks Interstate Park to Pippa Passes American Youth Hostel Association.
Entered Kentucky. My brakes need new brake blocks but finding a bike shop
round here is not easy. Just as we were into Kentucky, the bit of metal
holding the pannier carrier to the frame broke and with a faint smell of
burning I came to a stop (the back light that's fixed onto the back of the
carrier melted a little as it came into contact with the back wheel and
most of the tread disappeared off my kevlar back tyre!). All seems OK, so
bungee-ed the carrier to the seat post and carried on, seems fine. Kentucky
does seem full of dogs - they generally just park and jump up and down a
bit, but there are more than in Virginia, almost as if we were in a different
country. The dogs don't seem to be out to bite, just to warn their owners
that you are there. Dog dazer at the ready none-the-less. How do people
put up with the continual yelping that issues from the hillsides? One little
boy, in Lookout (appropriately named - they should add an exclamation mark
to get it just right), woke his little dog up and said "Chase them, Jobey".
Jobey chased but rather ineffectually. Jobey did get his teeth into Guy's
panniers and held on for a few yards before being dazed. The hostel at Pippa
Passes had us, Mark and Wanda (doing transAm but needing to go faster than
us since he's got to go to work in early Sept),and Jason, all making tea,
cooking things, washing, etc. Pleasant discussions of the trans Am - the
usual questions arose "What do you do if you cross a bear in Yellowstone?",
"do moose charge?" (yes, but only VISA), etc. The owners of Pippa
Passes, the Maddens, have been running the hostel since 1976 - and have
a certificate from the original BikeCentennial,for their services to the
transAm. A suggested zen style motto for the state of Kentucky - "the
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