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| Robinson, Bike Friday's Adventurous Otter, is back from Arizona to hit Route66 with the PACTOUR team. Visit www.bikefriday.com/bf/robinson |
THE START OF ROUTE 66: April 15, 2006. Santa Monica Boulevarde, CA. This Route66 signpost, with its nod to "Harvard" beckons us eastward, 29 days from now. |
This sign in my Bike Friday suitcase seems to have kept the airport Nazis from tampering with my Bike Friday, touch wood (or should that be chromoly?) |
Travel worn but not weary, the Galfromdownunder's Bike Friday leaps from its suitcase to hit the Route 66 trail. |
Klaus Schreibner bolts together his new (pre-owned) Bike Friday in the parking lot. |
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| A well annotated map tells riders what to spot at every crank turn along the 2,488 mile way. |
One of the two Dangle Bros, well known to readers of Adventure Cyclist Magazine, had a custom painted Route 66 bicycle. |
A glimpse inside the PACTOUR sag wagon - HAMMER Nutrition products and spare tires are the stuff! |
Tour leader and RAAM legend Lon Haldeman briefs riders in the Santa Monica Inn on day 0. "This is a tour not a hammer, don't go blowing past the historic sights and getting in by 1pm. We won't let you in the hotel." And this is a RAAM champ talking! |
5.30am, Day 1 in Santa Monica. A donut store provides the only available breakfast at that hour. Well 88 miles should shake it off ... |
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| PACTOUR Crew member Stephen Sheerin bought a Bike Friday AirGlide for the tour on the recommendation of Lon Haldeman. He gets to ride every other day. Brent Carwile, a Jamis-sponsored MTB champ on staff at Bike Friday, set it up for Steve. |
LA at 6.30 am on an Easter Sunday - any other time and this would be automania. |
Utterly organized Lon provides riders with excellent gearbags and other merchandise as part of their tour package. |
Bruce Fields is a veteran of over 25 PACTOUR events as crew and rider. He's done Route 66 before too. |
The Dangle Bros always stick together. Blood is thicker than Gatorade ... |
