Great picture, Dave. What trail is that?
Started out yesterday in 44° temperature and in the hour it took to cover 17.28 miles it had dropped to 35°. Still, not bad! No shoe covers, no frozen toes or fingers.
Amish weirdness seen on that loop:
1. Amish have their own schools and will not send their kids to public schools, yet you can watch the MRDD/learning disabled bus from the public school system drop off their learning disabled kids after school.
2. An Amishman in shirt sleeves working outside to build an outhouse for the home that he just bought from an 'English'. Yeah, the house has two perfectly functional bathrooms in it...
3. Passed the Amish sulky I have 'raced' on prior runs, but this time he was going the opposite direction...with LED lights so bright that Night Sun should be manufacturing them for bikes. Saw an Amish boy wearing theraditional all black clothing riding home on his...very bright orange push bike.
Which his weird because our local Amish have more relaxed rulz than many of the Amish sects in other areas of Ohio. You would think they would allow pedals and a gear or two, but noooooo!
One of the Amish areas nearby is home to Raber's Bike Shop...Amish owned and run. Raber's sits in the center of a very large Old Order (strict) Amish community, yet they sell more high end Pinarellos and such than most large bike shops in large metropolitan areas!
http://www.amish-heartland.com/shop...ike-shop-offers-quality-service-and-inventory
Those Old Order Amish parade by, one after another, on multi-gear Giants and TREKs and Cannondales! Keep thyself plain, yo!
Drafting der buggy...
Not me in this pic, but if you go ride the Holmes County Trail that runs from Killbuck up through Millersburg and Holmesville to Fredericksburg you will see sights like this. I swear...I passed an Amish gal that riding along staring down at the Bible she had propped on her handlebars and going mile after mile without looking at the trail pavement! The Amish equivalent of texting while driving?
