Ray and I rode his new permanent populaire from Bolivar up to St. Jo and back.  We both had late nights at High school football games with our kids playing in the band, so we started at a quite late 9am.  The weather was so unseasonably cool, and the North wind was nice on the return that it was a pleasant day despite the late start.   The uphill from Bolivar to Forestburg always seems to kick my butt for the first 25 miles, but boy after we got into St. Jo and came back downhill it got fun.  Took us 3:14 to go up and 2:16 to come back.  It was great getting to see Ray, and its a challenging 78 miles!
 
Ray will have the climb stats but we had a 4:41 ride time for 16.8 mph avg.  I was on the Corsa and Ray road the Xstream, really like those Xstreams!
 
 
Take Care,
Nelson.