Lewis and Clark Cycling Trek

Monday, July 23, 2007

Day 15, July 18-West Point, MS (Town Creek Campground) to Aliceville, AL (Cochrane Campground)

69.30 miles. N33.05 X W88.16.

We left in decent time again today (before 8:00 a.m.). We biked to Columbus for breakfast at McDonalds. Spokewrench even took advantage of the wifi that most McDonalds have and did some internet work. After breakfast, we headed out of Columbus, but not without some difficulty. Try as we might, we ran into a confusing section of our Adventure Cycling maps. We ended up making a 6 mile mistake. Then the flat tire. As it worked out, we had ridden 25 miles and we were still in Columbus. After this start, we finally got down to the business of biking. We passed through Pickensville, Aliceville, and finally Cochrane and the campground. This was our second COE (Corp of Engineer) campground and once again we were impressed. It was a pristine site and everything was well maintained and clean. The campground host stopped by while we were trying to pump up Spokewrench’s back tire and he said he had a compressor. We followed him back to his site where we were able to pump up all of our bike tires. Thanks, Campground Host!

Question of the day: Our tires on the bikes and trailers hold about 100 pounds per square inch (psi) each. What do you think happens if we try to inflate our tires that are down to 75 psi from a compressor that can only produce 50 psi?

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