Perchance to dream

My second long ride - Downhill Curving Offramp!

I decided to ride my bike out to the Hamptons on July 3rd to hang out with Nick and his parents' friends, one of whom is the amazing Ann Moore. More on her later. So this was about another 110 mile ride on about 2 gallons, again about 50-60mpg. I had to ride over the Manhattan Bridge from Manhattan to Long Island, and transfer onto the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

As the bridge started going downhill on the second half of the bridge, I saw the exit to the BQE...so I got onto it and immediately it became a curving, downhill off ramp. It doesn't sound very hard in a car...(just brake and turn, right!), but I had to somehow brake, lean to turn, and downshift while engaging the clutch and throttle properly. It was pretty tough and I don't think I did it right or well at all, but I survived. I just keep thinking about how I can do it properly in my head. It's also tough because coming from the freeway I was at like 65 mph in the right lane, and I don't want to slow down to like 40mph on the freeway.

Upside is, my earplugs worked like magic. No ringing in my ears at all. My back didn't hurt without the heavy backpack. But my butt still hurt, hehe.

Oh, and millions of bugs on the faceshield. How tasty.

posted by Eunice @ 12:40 PM