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Routes / Re: Help with route in WY

« on: December 31, 2011, 07:50:24 pm »

Wow, lot's of great information to chew on, thanks!  I've ridden many miles around Nebraska....the sandhills are a beautiful ride!  I'm admittedly a novice outside of the state however and was really only considering the route from Rawlins up to the park because the Adventure Cycling map did such a great job of laying out the details.  My son and I were going to start our ride somewhere along the NE/WY boarder and just east of Cheyenne seemed like a logical choice to eventually connect to the Adventure Cycling map section I have.  The goal is to end in Yellowstone where other family members would meet us for a family vacation in the park.

Having said all that, I think I need to re-assess the plan and look for a start town other than Cheyenne and one that gives us the number of days of riding we're hoping for, but also allows for a more northly route as you gents are recommending.

Stay close, I'm bound to have more questions...

Thanks so much for the replies!

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Routes / Help with route in WY

« on: December 31, 2011, 02:26:02 pm »

Happy New Year everyone!

Looking to ride out to Yellowstone this summer from Nebraska and need some help from anyone who has ridden Wyoming.  I have the Adventure Cycling map for section 5 of the Transamerica route but that only covers from Rawlins, Wy to Yellowstone.  Section 6 doesn't help because it drops down into Colorado.  I need some help finding a route to get from Cheyenne over to Rawlins.  I'd appreciate any information someone might have with that area?

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Gear Talk / Re: "SKS" Fenders??

« on: July 22, 2011, 06:36:20 pm »

Okay fenders arrived in mail and just finished installation.  Now that they are on, I love the looks and style.  I have a black bike and these matching fenders almost blend in so well that you don't notice them.  I installed the P-45s and I use both 700cx28s and 32s for tires.  They also seemed to be very solid and high quality, once installed.  Before I got them on, I had some concern...

Now the bad:  The instructions were practically useless.  There was no parts list and SKS includes several "extra" nuts and bolts to accommodate various frame types and installation methods.  This is a nice thing but I still wish they provided a parts list and indicated this fact on the instructions.  Before installing, make sure you have a Drimal, bench grinder, or some other easy way to cut and trim pieces.  I had to take off between .5 and .75 of an inch from the mounting stays because they were too long.  A Drimal worked perfectly and I used a bench grinder to re-smooth the ends.

Lastly, There are lots of little parts to put together and line up in order to mount the fenders on the ends of the stays.  This was a royal P in the A, especially after getting them together, mounting them on the bike and realizing the stays were too long and needed to be cut down...build, tear apart, repeat...

At the end of the day, patience overcame a fairly difficult installation and adjusting process but now that I'm finished, it was worth it.  Hope this is helpful to someone out there.

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Gear Talk / Re: "SKS" Fenders??

« on: July 17, 2011, 04:41:37 pm »

New to the board and I appreciate some of the guidance and experiences posted here.  I'm just getting into the touring style of riding an the posts here helped me out.  I just purchased a set of SKS fenders and I'll let you know how they worked out from a rookie perspective.