Journal Comments - Joshua Tree, Anza-Borrego, Imperial Valley 2016 - CycleBlaze

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From Joshua Tree, Anza-Borrego, Imperial Valley 2016 by Wayne Estes

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Charmaine Ruppolt commented on a photo in Day 10: Desert Hot Springs to Yucca Valley

Wow, yea, I can see it would be very difficult to bike on the road there with the improperly positioned rumble strip!!

1 week ago
Wayne Estes commented on Introduction

My local area has a pronounced wet season and dry season. I put on the fenders around the first of November and take them off sometime in April. It's easy to install the fenders, but I wouldn't want to take them on and off every time it rains.
During tours I use fenders nearly all the time. The only other recent tour to not use fenders was the Columbia Coulee Chelan Circuit tour which was in deserts in the middle of the dry season.

2 years ago
Kelly Iniguez commented on Introduction

Do you take your fenders on/off, typically? Ours stay on year round. Spoon takes his off though . . . I think fenders are fiddly and difficult to get just right. Mine stay put!

Plus, seeing someone with fenders pretty much identifies them as a tourist. To me. It's like seeing a kindred spirit, even if they don't have panniers.

2 years ago
Scott Anderson replied to a comment by Wayne Estes on a photo in Day 3: Desert Shores to Borrego Springs

Just an observation, in case you weren’t aware. If you respond using the Reply option, it will be emailed back to the person you’re replying to; but if you add it as just a new comment, it will not. Your reply to the Grampies is another example.

2 years ago
Wayne Estes commented on a photo in Day 3: Desert Shores to Borrego Springs

All county roads in Imperial County have awful pavement. It's an impoverished county.

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on Day 9: Indio to Desert Hot Springs, detour to Indian Canyons

We weren’t that far away from you on this horrible day! We were in a bar in Silver City, stunned as the election results rolled in, at the end of a tour that began in Tucson - the same tour where we stayed at Dreamcatcher B&B that you’re of course familiar with. https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/tucson16/to-silver-city/

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 3: Desert Shores to Borrego Springs

Good enough. Nice!

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 3: Desert Shores to Borrego Springs

This is such an awful road alright. We rode it going the other direction some years back.

2 years ago
Wayne Estes commented on a photo in Cyclist and Bike

Thanks for the kind words. I'm 15 pounds (7 kg) lighter now.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Cyclist and Bike

Dodie says she thinks you look just fine. Nice bike too.

2 years ago
Wayne Estes commented on a photo in Day 2: Twentynine Palms to Desert Shores

Thanks for your expertise!

2 years ago
Bill Shaneyfelt commented on a photo in Day 5: Borrego Springs to Ocotillo

Brittlebush can flower almost any time there is a little rain. Notice they are only close to the pavement. Water runs off the pavement and soaks into the ground instead of just evaporating off the surface like the surroundings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encelia_farinosa

2 years ago
Bill Shaneyfelt commented on a photo in Day 2: Twentynine Palms to Desert Shores

Datura. A native.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_wrightii

2 years ago