Still to this day do not know what these are. |
Badlands |
Mary and me in the Badlands. |
Mostly mud not rock. |
Our two drivers, Aggie and Betsy Hildreth, Joe's wife and daughter. |
1st group photo. Left to right: Donnie Hildreth, Mary Guevara, Chris Guevara, Joe Hildreth, Tom Riggs. |
Because we needed to carry two drivers to get our two vehicles back to Sioux Falls, the tandem had to ride on back of the van. I much prefer bicycles inside vehicles. Safer. No issues this trip. |
Inside the Badlands Visitor Center. |
nice shot Joe! Cannot believe I missed this opportunity. |
Wall Drug |
Bicycle Gothic |
Jessica. She wrote a blog on this ride for the newspaper she works for, Chamberlain/ Oacoma Sun. Prestine 1991 Trek 520. I was jealous but glad I was not on it for the week. Too fast for slow bikes. |
Kasey Abbott, the person responsible for it all. He rode every day and stopped at every town, event and food stand.. |
Tom's tent died during a sudden gust of wind. It was windy that evening. Old high profile tents tend to snap poles. |
All our crap. |
Tracy |
Pre-ride feed. Unfortunately I grabbed too much salad. |
kathy's bike. Self contained for a day and a half. Salsa. |
Pancake breakfast Day 1. |
Words of advice from the Official Wristband |
South Dakota Beer Drinkers Association, I think. |
Donnie and Jeff. Jeff rode with us during TdK last year. He just got dropped off this morning. |
The Crazy Horse Memorial staff had no objections for us to do the group photo. 10 miles into Day 1. |
La Machine |
Helicopters around the corner. |
Keith |
Pringle South Dakota |
Bicycle sculpture |
This antelope almost got ran over by a RV. |
Hot Springs, SD |
At the time zone line. Keith said the going rumor is that the number on the state sticker is the mileage to the nearest FEMA Camp. |
Cosey |
These two just rode 100 miles and have about 10 more to go! |
Preparing for the downhill. |
Tim Fairchild relaxing. |
Kathy |
Craig Rust between Donnie and Mary. Very funny person. Hell of a rider. He helped us kill the FireBall during TdK last year. |
Jim, Jeff and Tracy at Tim's RV. Basically 3 parties going on at once this night on the eastern shores of the Missouri River, |
The man with the safety vest was riding across the country. As fellow bicyclist we could not help but smother him with questions. He just wanted a shower and time to finish his Mike's hard Lemonade. |
The South dakota Cattle Women were quite a good sponsor! |
1957 Thunderbird painted as a memorial for veterans. |
Went there for the All You Can Eat chicken and buffet. |
Road Booty contest. |
Tim has a turtle. |
Dawn in Freeman, SD |
Retired Secretary of Agriculture meets his former employee Doug. He provided snacks at his mother's cattle ranch. |
My son has the same shirt! |
Wildlife in Sioux Falls |
David Sunde |
At the finish with a flat. |
Jim and Tracy at the finish! |
Video interview of Kathy explainer her crash. |
never let strangers use your spy camera. |
They don't know how to use it! At The Falls, Sioux Falls, SD. |
My view sans hands and forearms |
Front view. |
thanks for the pics. I considered the F2F ride but rode in Harlans Bike Blast instead.
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