So much greatness went down the last 6 days! I’m going to do my best to represent the great city of Portland well with a few posts you will see clog your Twitter feed. I hope you enjoy.
Being a dude from North Alabama there isn’t a lot of elevation. In a ride you may nab 2,000’ish feet without doing a loop of the same route. Portland on the other hand… you could head out, only ride 40 miles and hit around 4,500 feet of climbing easy. That’s exactly what Tim Wesolowski, Aaron and I did the second day I was in town. It was amazing.
Aaron has had his Milani up for sale for a couple weeks now with no hits yet. I’m personally very thankful no one has taken this beautiful machine off his hands. It gave me the chance to enjoy its beautiful steel frame and Campagnolo goodness! With that said, if you’re in the market for one bad ass bike, you should hit up Aaron (@manofmultnomah via Instagram) and pick this sucker up.
Since I was riding the UPNESS Mobile and about to climb the most elevation in one sitting to date, I hooked up an UPNESS bottle and button to remind me to enjoy the pain. To be honest… the pain was minimal. I loved every minute of it! It got cold and wet but after a stop at a rural stand alone “corner store” midride I was good to go. Aaron and I met a fella by the name of Steve. He is the 3rd generation store owner passed down from his father and his father’s father. It was so rad to get in from the cold (which wasn’t really that bad but I was wet and didn’t have the right clothes on), eat some horribly delicious sugary snack (to recharge obviously), down a warm cup of joe and listen to a little history of Steve’s place. After that… away we went!
Bam… Portland recap post one done. More stories to tell in posts to come. Cheers
RIDE x CREATE
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