L'Eroica Dreams

My brother, who will join my wife and many members of my family to support my ride, ask me how the training was going. “Just fine,” I said, even if I haven’t ridden significant distances. I suppose I can say that with nearly three months of training time ahead of me. Or, can I? The longest ride I’ve taken so far, 60+KM from Sisters, Oregon to the McKenzie Pass and back, was wonderful and done on the tandem with Sue.

The Moseman and rider in the team kit

Even so, the climbing was constant and exhausting and I was glad when it was over. L’Eroica will be more than three times that distance, though the climbing may not be so difficult.

But, I keep at it even if it is at small increments. I’ve finished the conversion to “vintage” bicycle with the addition of the Campy pedals detailed previously. I even slapped on a pair of tubular wheels, even if they may be a bit more contemporary than the ones pictured on the various L’Eroica sites. And, what a pleasure to ride them. Fast, smooth and rolling like nothing else.

Here are a couple of gear pictures, which seem to be the ones that most readers, however few there may be, prefer.

The shoes, so far