Tran-american bike tour

[dlynch2]

We are riding from Seaside to the East coast exact location to be determined.
We were discussing the correct tire dip in the pacific ocean.  Some say rear in pacific and front in Atlantic.
Others say the opposite.

Lets take a vote.  What do you say?

[staehpj1]

For east bound I voted rear tire Pacific, front tire Atlantic, but personally I wouldn't bother with the ritual again.  We dragged our loaded bikes across 200 yards of sand and then spent a lot of time with the drive train crunching and grinding until we got to a place where we could rinse them off.  My first thought was that we should have taken the gear off and carried them to the water and back.  My second thought was that we shouldn't have bothered.  At the finish of the tour it was really easy so we did the dip, but I skipped the ritual on my next coast to coast tour.

[indyfabz]

but personally I wouldn't bother with the ritual again.

+1. I actually didn't bother with the ritual at all, although some of us did jump in the water at Bar Harbor, ME.

If you want to dip, I would avoid finishing in S. Jersey for the reason noted above. Lots of sand to traverse at many of the beaches in that part of the world if you truly want to dip in the ocean as opposed to one of the back bays.

[John Nelson]

but personally I wouldn't bother with the ritual again.

+2

I dip my left foot in the Pacific and my right foot in the Atlantic. Saves a lot of trouble.