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Bonneville Salt Flat
This weekend 42 US riders will meet, greet, tell tales and enjoy a well-earned rest in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the 42-Below Vodka bike summer to build a buzz amongst vodka-drinking cyclists (and why not?), the 21 riders of the southern route and the 21 riders who took the northern passage will become 42. And so ends their ride across the United States.
42-Below has been filming the summer journey and will be releasing a film as part of next year's Bicycle Film Festival, but since Rapha helped by sorting out the riders with Stowaway Jackets so they were ready for the elements, a few of the riders have been sharing the more entertaining bits along the way.
We first met Chris at our White's Ferry Gentlemen's Ride in Washington D.C. earlier this summer, just a couple of weeks before he got the call from 42-Below group to head west. Chris sent this in of he and Kennedy riding across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, a natural wonder so flat, so dazzling that it's a favorite location for filming car commercials and has been the site of hundreds of land-speed records.
Interestingly enough, the salt flats' potential for racing was first recognized in 1896 by W.D. Rishel who was scouting a bicycle race course from New York to San Francisco. I'm sure that W.D. and now Chris and Kennedy realize the flats' potential for eroding frames, cables, brake pads, rims and anything else that comes in contact with the salt floor.
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Comments
Jan Sotorník
20th August 2009 12:06pm
oh, poor bikes :-)
Joe Hall
20th August 2009 12:23pm
An incredible looking place. Certainly wouldn't want to take the bike with the new paint job out there though.
In regards to the W.D. Rishel race from NY to SF, will you be organising one for next year Slate?
Slate Olson
20th August 2009 04:32pm
Seems like a natural evolution for the Rapha Gentleman's Race doesn't it?
Dave Wyman
21st August 2009 06:48pm
Potential for erosion? Yes.
But think of the possibilities for enjoying margaritas!