Cycle Oregon. Day 6.

Huh....looks like we might be doing some climbing today!

The goat heads from yesterday still played a factor early on.  My buddy (aka shopping girls CFO) was one victim.

 Ok, I didn't take a lot of pictures on this day.  Not sure if it was because we were busy climbing or if riding a bike all day every day was just getting routine.  The real climbing on this ride came late in the day after some nice downhills on forest service roads.  The last trick....1.6 miles of gravel.  Not a big deal for me (or wifey) with wider tires, but most of these poor saps had foo foo carbon road bikes with 23 mm tires.  Not their favorite section for sure!

Here comes the gravel.  Some folks who really love their carbon bikes actually carried them!!

The town of Seneca offered a fabulous sunset while we sipped beers and watched the band!

A little note here....Seneca is another tiny town (maybe a couple hundred people).  They definitely get a heads up that Cycle Oregon is coming because it can be a real boon to their economy.  In this case....Cycle Oregon riders hit the local restaurant so hard they closed after 2 hours......because they ran out of food!  The local convenience market was also hit hard and didn't have much left on the shelves by the end of the day.  The mayor gave a quick thanks letting the riders know that they had brought the entire town out of the red and into the black (budget wise) for the rest of the year!!

So don't count out bicycles as a local economic factor!!