Bike Across Kansas
By Gary Gilbert
Friday, September 03, 2004
The offfial web site of BAK is http://www.bak.org
I travelled to Kansas City and took a bus to the start of the ride. I had a great time and met some cyclists I've ridden with on future tours.
Bike Across Kansas is a ride of about 900 riders, divided into 3 groups. Each group has a different route and different overnight towns. That keeps the groups down to about 300 riders. The groups are named "B" "A" and "K". I rode with the "K" group
The Bike Across Kansas web site contains daily reports and photographs from the ride.
Check out http://www.bak.org/archives/pastweb/bak00/bak00.html for the 2000 tour.
The first morning of the ride, we were driven in cattle cars to the Colorado / Kansas state line. I'm the rider climbing out of one in this photo:
My recollections of this ride are hills and wind and wheat. The hills were long slow grades. The wind came up from Texas and blew strong. I learned how to join a pace line from a group of cyclists 20 years older than myself. I could barely keep up with them. The wheat blew in "Amber Waves of Grain".
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