Paris-Redux Recon

With sunny skies and some coolish winds, I got out today with Dave in two for some recon for our April RCCS cobblestone ride (early draft). I've been mentally planning for this ride for while but never put the various brick alley segments together, so today Dave and I wandered around for more than 2 hours looking at and riding different alleyways, all for the purpose of putting together a fun 'Paris-Redux' ride in April for the RCCS. Aside from my back being a little tired it was alot of fun today, and we found 3 or 4 different portions that I hadn't previously know of in both the Highland and in Old Louisville. Our only misstep was when a stick caught in Dave's fenders and just mangled it to death; he'll need a new front one as the old one was toast.

We thoroughly covered the Original Highlands, Shelby Park, Old Louisville and Downtown before coming back via the Beargrass Trail and Alta Vista Rd. I'll do a Crescent Hill recon ride next and should be able to cobble together a bit more than 30 bumpy miles. And it certainly was a great way to start March.

A stick mangled Dave's front mudguard, so I took a pic on Dave's camera. Man of Action he is!

St. James Court south.
You can barely see the Pink Old lady in the distance to the left.

St. James Court north, including fountain.
This was a stretch of asphalt, but we soon threw ourselves back into the brick-paved maelstrom.