Coffeeneuring Stop #6: Blue Mountain Bakery

A simple cruiser ride from my brother's beach cottage for mid-morning coffee, snacks, and bike parts.  More on the bike parts below.

1. where: Blue Mountain Bakery, Santa Rosa Beach FL

2. date: 11/13/21

3. what: their basic brew-of-the-day, tasted sort of Columbian.  Black.  Oatmeal cookie on the side.

4. details: A sky-blue sky with a tailwind going, all along the bike path paralleling C-30, looking at back-of-the-dunes beach views, a bunch of packed-in but very nice cottages, interspersed with the occasional cluster of restaurants, bait shops, and -of course- coffee shops.

5. 8.2 miles round-trip.

Well this is something that's never happened, I rode a crank off a bike!  In fact, so did my brother.  We each wallowed out a pedal spindle screw-in point on a crank.  I think it had more to do with the cheapo cruiser bikes – no, wait, bicycle shaped objects (BSOs) – that the rental company staged at my brother's beach cottage rather than actual feats of strength, but nonetheless it did happen.  Weirdest thing, it's like the aluminum threads on the crank turned into cheddar cheese or some such.  Fortunately, next door to the coffee shop there was a bike store, so repairs were made while we got coffee.  (convenient)  Also, I found some new pedals for the gravel bike that I'd been looking for (that's what's in my left hand in the pic), so double bingo.  I'll throw in a gratuitous mention of Big Daddy's Bike Shop here, the people there are genuinely nice folks who got us back on the road in short order.

All in all, a successful if somewhat unusual coffeeneuring trip.  Also, we conclusively demonstrated that BSOs are no match at all for the likes of over-caffeinated gravel/tri/mountain bikers.