Top: Had to stop at the Santa Maria rest stop at 60 miles to tighten a water bottle cage that got rattled loose on the very rough roads of rural Santa Barbara county. I then rode alone for about 7 miles until Dominion Road where I rode with this guy for a while as he was pulling a nice pace and showed no signs of tiring. As it turns out, I rode with him again the last 4 miles into Solvang flying down Ballard Canyon at 27mph passing everyone else along the way, fun. He was riding an unmarked titanium frame with a carbon Colnago fork. Bottom: The above rider and I got caught by a group of 6 riders including one woman and we rode together for several miles until we hit a climb where the woman and I got separated off the back.
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