Coffee and pastry normally fix everything for us. Good call!!

You're going to pedal like a hot knife through butter! Great range on your rig!

Love those splashes of red

Hi,
You missed your chance to see another one of these in Park Darcy in Dijon. I’ve often wondered how many more are out there.
Cheers,
Keith

I quite enjoy a good stinky cheese.

That's what our Oregonian friends call a "sucker hole": it looks like good weather is about to come, drawing out the suckers only to drown them a bit later.

Glad you managed to soldier on and endure. A long hot shower, buttressed and supported by a couple glasses of adult beverage of some sort, is the perfect antidote after such a ride.

You sure are tough!

Definitely, especially on a rainy day!

Sorry you have such crummy weather!

Looks delicious!

A black bass! I've never seen one before, but I wonder if my son covets one. Both his are traditional wood finish.

Thanks for the education Susan.

Hi Keith
Yes, I do have Di2 electronic shifting. The set-up I have uses a Wolf Tooth Road Link derailleur extender, which sits between the derailleur hanger and the derailleur. It is 29$ part that is not specific to my bike - but the derailleur hangar itself had to match my bike model to fit in the frame. The extender allows me to have an 11-40 rear cassette (rather than the 11-34 cassette) with my GRX 43/31 crankset and the combination gives me a good climbing ratio. This was the best option for me when I changed from a road bike set-up after Shimano introduced their GRX gravel bike components. Hope this explanation helps

I see now why the broken derailleur hanger was such a catastrophe earlier this year. Not that I'm any sort of expert, and I don't keep current on the state of the art, but that design's unlike anything I've ever seen.

Is the bike fitted with electric shifting? That looks like an electrical wire and not a traditional mechanical steel cable emerging from the chain stay.

:)