For those of you that ride you know how nice it is and what a huge difference it makes when you have new tires.  For those of you that don’t know – it’s like going from a VW Bug with worn out shocks to a Ferrari.  Okay, that might be a bit of an overstatement but not much.

We had to wait longer than expected for my bike to get out of the shop, but it came with the new rear tire it really needed, and some new brake pads – that they say it needed.  I’m not too sure about the brakes but whatever, cheap insurance.  And, it was nice of the folks there to get the bikes right in.

I guess I had some kind of idea about how late we were going to be able to leave because this was the shortest leg we’ve had – just over 200 miles.  I took the opportunity catch up on the blog and get some pictures up too.  Oh yea, my turn to do laundry too, that gave me some time with the computer.