Hi Mike

The blown tire was a 700c x 28 on my tandem.

I'm very leery of building up a big head of speed. The handlebar bag affects steering stability, for one thing, and I have a horror vision of what would happen lest *anything* go wrong at high speed. I don't even like 25 mph unless there's absolutely straight line of sight, clean road surface, and a visible reduction in slope coming up.

Emergency braking from 40 mph just isn't going to happen.

Hi Keith
Braking and over heating rims.
The conventional wisdom is to let the bike run and brake hard before entering a corner the rinse and repeat rather than feathering the brakes all the the way down. With panniers in the air stream and sitting upright you should not exceed 40 mph. The small diameter wheels on your BF do increase the risk compared to larger rims.
Finally you can cook a disc rotor and end up with no brakes but not lose your tyre.
When you blew a tyre off your rim a long time ago what was the tyre width?

He's locked up to the hitchin' post out back.

Where did your bike go, here? We had good luck this trip. Almost always our bikes were allowed in the room. Last year, in Wisconsin/Michigan, that was not the case.

Thanks!

Great photo!

It was indeed. The descent would have been equally hairy; I was really glad not to have to do it.

Thanks. The first 1,000 miles are in the books. Only about another 3,000 to do.

🤣😂🤣😂

That's a tough climb by Virgina City. I remember it clearly!

We were out here in the mid sixties. Although I was very young, somehow I remembered the story of the people killed when a boulder landed on their tent. I also remembered that it was the failure of a dolomite "wall" that was responsible for the slide.

You're making great progress, Keith!

It's always sad to read about natural disasters like this!

I knew you were joshing. It's all good.

Sorry. Just giving you a hard time. I wouldn’t have noticed that either without a prompt.