Last Early Birds Flight of the Season

This Sunday PyZahl made it to the last Early Birds flight of the season. The sun was still below the horizon and the moon was up high positioned in a great clear sky.

It was fairly comfortable temperature for that early morning hour, but the wind chill was significant. Expecting wind gusts up to 30mph soon...


More showing up, that's good, more legs to push the air away...


Some birds seam to have a turbo charged photon warp drive enabled bike -- if this is UCI conform...???


And really colorful bird...


Ready to fly...


The flight started out at warp speed of about 40km/h on the North Route and a reassembly slow down -- they were surprisingly nice today -- took place at Edwards, as some riders must have got dropped at the first miles already. From then on comfortable moving in a small head group with heavy cross winds form left (NW) and bad head wind on Doctors. Moving east on Sound was much better again and was like flying -- only on big branch came in PyZahls path at good moving speed and had to be cleared by hopping it as there was no chance to get around, worked just find, wheels were barely touching it :-) The usual sprint at the tanks separated the group again and a second group assembled soon and they reached the Cutchogue Deli for a hot Coffee :-)


On the way back the head wind component was strong, the last days rain storm must have washed some debris on the road and a rider got a flat -- they did not had a flat stop in a long while at all!


And all together fly back home.

PS: Read the nleg blog for complimentary ride details.