Pactour Day 9 - Wyoming in 115 degree heat

Breakfast in the parking lot may not sound terribly appealing.  Well, when Susan is making french toast in the morning that's not so bad, is it?

Our friend Lara Sullivan is quite a climber.  How she climbed a bale of Hay is beyond me.

Will has been a blur on this trip.  Not sure if the Bull and his Heifers could see him cruising by.

Kinda cool burned out mining town on the road to Cody today.

Today we wore our CSC kits.  More on this later.

Today was a tough day for the family.  115 miles of hot (up to 115 on the tarmac afternoon) head wind mostly uphill.  We bailed at the 95 mile mark and took the AC van in.  Tomorrow's 150 miles with 720 feet of climbing including the 4000 foot 18 mile climb thru the Big Horn Mountains. so we'll be a little fresher for that.

No flats or crashes today, so better fortune.  We're out of Montana, finally.  We've done 9/27 days and 1000/3500 miles so I'd call that progress.

Will and JW ride Cervelo R3's.   This Canadian bike company is one of Bicycle-Heaven's major brands (along with Canondale, Felt, Raleigh, Kona, Moots, Pinarello, Colnago.)  The Cervelo R3 is the bike which won Paris Roubaix the past 2 years with Fabian Cancellara in 2006 and Stuart Ogrady in 2007.  The R3 is the more comfortable and strong of the 2 top end Cervelo racing  bikes (the other is the soloist) so we thought it would be a good choice for the boys for the trip.  Seems to be working, they are struggling less than the parents, I believe.  

We took 4 cycling outfits each (Pactour supplies a jersey, so we have a total of 5 for the trip.)  2 of these are Bicycle-Heaven kits (1 San Antonio, 1 St. Charles) 2 are Professional tour teams (CSC pictured above and Liquigas.)  

We're proud of our brands at B-H.  Cannondale (Liquigas) won the Giro d'Italia earlier this year, and Cervelo (CSC) is the top ranked team in the world and wore the Yellow Jersey at this year's Tour de France for a week or so.

Til tomorrow....