Lincoln Continental / Rapha Ride Report

Rapha has published an extensive Daniel Wakefield Paisley slide show, his essay, the Matt Wills plotted cue sheet and map, and the film from last spring's Lincoln Continental ride — more informally known 'round these parts as the Ponca Ride.

Lincoln Continental Road Journal

"We are in The Coffee House in Lincoln, Nebraska, in our kit. It’s 6:30 am and still dark outside.
"It’s also just begun to rain — harder."

Read the rest of Daniel Wakefield Pasley's road journal from Rapha's Lincoln-to-Ponca ride — complete with a short film and photos of our wet-then-dry-then-very-long day — at the Rapha web site.



To see all the Lincoln Continental posts, click on the "Rapha" tag below.

150 Miles Of Dirt In Nebraska

The images are trickling in and they're about as epic as you'd expect.


What you'll find at In Flagrante Photo is the still photography work of the two video dudes on Rapha's Lincoln Continental ride — Dave Christenson and Adam Kolkman — as blogged by Carey Schleicher-Haselhorst.

More (video and stills) to come, fo sho.

Thoughts In Anticipation (slight return)

Behold.

This is the spirited steed that I'll be astride for the Rapha Ride tomorrow — the Salsa Podio.

While it’s no custom ti beauty or some jealousy inducing classic steel rig, don’t be mistaken, it's a very fine road bike judged by any standard, and in the two months that I've had the Podio, it’s stood up respectably on all the stages I’ve pushed in out onto — rainy afternoon journeys, a few Wednesday worlds, and the ultimate platform (at least for the immediate future), gravel road rides.

The shape you see it in here is exactly as it will be piloted all day on Tuesday — 100psi 25s, a fresh computer, a spare tube, and a pump. Simple. The forecast is for rain and more rain, so it’ll also be covered in a wet grit, but it’s no more and no less than any of us will be needing on our century and a half north to Ponca.

We hope.

The rest of our companions are on their way here right now from MLPS and should arrive just in time for The Oven and a beer, and then all the anticipation will be done.

Long live long rides.