Fantastic day for a ride. I went with Peggy and Roger joined us a little bit into the ride. I was cruising with them to the end of OTR. When we reached route 202, we decided what to do next. We all decided to go up the wall and meet at Bright Lake. After that, we decided to go to the summit of Banducci. I waited for them for a few minutes and we started talking about what we wanted to do next. Peggy was going to turn around, Roger was going to do the ride minus SS. In the end all 3 of us decided to go down to the SS side. I did the SS loop, while they skipped it. I was hoping I'd be able to catch them before OTR on the return leg. In such, I did high tempo all the way through SS, the farm lands, and up CVR. I met up with them after the CVR summit, in the plains. I felt real good while doing high tempo, no complaints, concentration was good, balance was good. Gear is working well, but I was hearing some mystery clicks in the beginning of the ride. That was the only bummer about the ride. Other notes, they finished adding a bike lane on CVR. It's great! nice and smooth. It almost felt like I had a flat tire because there were no bumps. When we were going up OTR, the donkey was all the way up the field. Needless to say, he was not interested in being fed. Perhaps next time.