Team Hype was up in SF this weekend, so we volunteered to give them a guided tour of one of our mellow Marin hops. Unfortunately, TH’s Remi had to go it alone, as his brother-in-arms, Shoelace, was home growing chest hair. But not to worry, we gave him a workout!

We took Remi over the bridge (no tourist bike collidery or SUV crushery or wet-grate slidery, so we were statistically in the green) and down through Sausalito to the Paradise Loop with the Strwberry Extension. This is a great staple ride here in Marin, because it can be done in many different ways: as I do it most often, these days, as a lunch ride; you can do it bombing on road bikes, mashing on fixies, easy-cheesie with inexperienced rider friends, whatever the flavor of that day might be. Remi was on his road bike a DA-4-Life Fuji, and Lung and I were on our Leader and Cinelli bikes, per the usual. It was a good ride, pretty brisk pace through the hops. We warned Remi not to be fooled by the mannequin in a squad car, but sure enough, we rolled up and he promptly through himself on the ground, raised his hands over his head (for protection, not surrender) and had his cameraphone running. I eased his burden. "These aren’t PV cops, brother!" I says.

I brought the powdered donuts. Of course, by 9am the powdered donuts were already sold out, so we had glazed donut holes. Which are, admittedly, for babies.

Great ride, good friends, and we even met some nice girls on a lay-of-the-land tour (no, Lung, NO) and helped them out of a flat tyre bind. Good mojo all around.

Read Hype’s report here…

Update: Forgot to mention, got a call-out on my green Cinelli Mash build from a rider passing in the opposite direction. Oh yes, Mash’s Rainier. That was nice!

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