Another successful {80×81} L.B. to Pizza Port {Long Beach-Solana Beach}

From left to right [Tony's Market San Clemente]: Dr.Numb-Numb, Uncle Howie, Clydsdale-I, Hobo, Fluff-Daddy, Timone, Pumbaa, Tube-Top, Dorothy, Dumpy, UberFred.

80 miles / 81″ {single speed rule in effect} ~3000 ft of elevation change [a little over 4 hours ride time].

4 rode single speeds [not fixed gear] {UberFred, Dr.Num-Numb, The Mexican,  Fluff-Daddy}.  Everyone else stayed [presumably] in their single gear of choice, although I did hear a few click-clicks through the rollers after Corona Del Mar & in Camp Pendleton {weak bastards}.   There’s a sublime satisfaction riding a single speed all the way.  Uncle Howie’s gonna convert one of his n+1/s-1♣ ponies to single speed {finally}.

Styrker, long ago, dubbed this ride: B.R.E.  {Best Ride Ever}
80 miles: the perfect distance; enough to suffer but no too much; suffering is an essential element for a notable ride.  I was reciting Rule V sawing logs the last 5 miles. Ahhhh! It felt great.

There’s a je ne sais quoi to a one way ride (even with the complications of logistics) with the promise of good beer & pizza.  A one way ride heightens the fever;  the banter; the reciting of rules and regulations; the accusations of weakness at every opportunity {no different than any ride}.  If  you can’t give your friends grief, you can’t give them anything at all.

Consider the {80×81} an official SSS* event now.  80 miles to Solana Beach, Amtrak home and the bikes on the truck after Peter’s dutiful attention to our needs along the way.

The Pizza Port offers an outside bar that stretches the length of the restaurant, where we take control and heckle the dense parade of other freddies as they pass; unknowing victims of our superiority; no one is spared.

Note: Guero & Dagwood opted out because they’re riding from LB to Santa Ynez (155 miles) on Tuesday {pussies. they need to re-read Rule V / the Dag needs to review Rule 11 or simply needs to apply a variation of Rule 12 {n+1 & s-1} to his application of Rule V}.

*Single Speed Season
♣Rule 12

Muy Uno Animaux!