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Yesterday Bonnie and I completed the Spirit World 100’s 58 mile course. Spirit World is held in and around Patagonia Arizona. What a cool little town. We drove 3100 miles to get here and this was certainly the coolest place we saw on that drive. Bonnie is more of a completer than a competent and I rode it with her so I had a lot of time to take pictures.
The course was super rough apparently because it was an unusually dry summer. It was basically 58 miles of washboard and sand traps with an occasional rock pit of a wash.
I rode my Grail and Bonnie rode her Grail
n which had just enough juice to make it to the line.
The last picture is my rear brake. At about mile 30 I felt the lever go soft at the end of a really rough section. I stopped and the pads had ejected themselves. The pistons were way out and cockeyed and the wheel wouldn’t turn. I was able to carefully press the pistons back in with the flat side of my chain plier and found the pads and spring but the retaining pin was gone. I was sure I’d have to ride the rest with just a front brake but luckily a passerby had a hair pin which held for the whole rest of the ride!
The course was super rough apparently because it was an unusually dry summer. It was basically 58 miles of washboard and sand traps with an occasional rock pit of a wash.
I rode my Grail and Bonnie rode her Grail
n which had just enough juice to make it to the line.The last picture is my rear brake. At about mile 30 I felt the lever go soft at the end of a really rough section. I stopped and the pads had ejected themselves. The pistons were way out and cockeyed and the wheel wouldn’t turn. I was able to carefully press the pistons back in with the flat side of my chain plier and found the pads and spring but the retaining pin was gone. I was sure I’d have to ride the rest with just a front brake but luckily a passerby had a hair pin which held for the whole rest of the ride!
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