Indianapolis was the highlight of today’s 75 mile ride from Crawfordsville to Greenfield, Indiana. We were within earshot of the Speedway, in the town of Speedway, where they’re very proud of their Speedway.

This is a big weekend at the Speedway, with a car stereo competition; a car exhaust competition; “car limbo”, which I assume is a low rider competition; and a bikini competition. (Which of these doesn’t belong?) It’s also definitely the start of yard sale season.

Indianapolis is a very bike friendly town, with a riverside bike path on the west side into downtown, nice bike lanes downtown, adequate bike lanes in the less prosperous east side, and the long Pennsy Trail on an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad right of way leading out of town toward Greenfield. The trail even has a set of markers to scale showing the distance from the Sun to the planets. We had a great family hike years ago on a similar trail in Lucerne.

We reached Greenfield after a fairly easy ride. It has lots of classic old architecture.

Chad had one of the sloppiest sandwiches ever, then it was on to the hotel for bike repairs. As we all remember from Day -1, I had a frayed shifter cable on the rear derailleur which had to be replaced. Today coming out of the SAG stop the other cable broke. It couldn’t be fixed on the road so I spent most of the day pedaling furiously in low gear. Tonight I got a new cable installed. Chad needed a new chain as his had stretched to the point that it no longer shifted properly. That’s normal wear after 4-5000 miles. We should be good now all the way to Boston.

Tomorrow it’s a late start (9:30 instead of 7:30!) and then a short 50 mile ride to Richmond and another Cracker Barrel dinner.