Stiff upper lip, and all that.
A stop Thursday night in downtown Chanute was planned long before the afternoon rainstorm. After riding for more than a month through sunshine, the damp weather was something the group of British bicyclists could handle.
“This is the first weather we’ve seen,” bicyclist and organizer Steve Wesson said. One rider, though, was stranded under a tree by the storm and had to be rescued.
The riders with the Bike Adventure commercial touring company stopped in Chanute as part of a trans-America ride.
The group included an Australian and couple of Irish, and the company has run bicycle tours through New Zealand, South Africa and Europe. The group started in Florence, Ore., on July 21 and will finish in Yorktown, Va., on Sept. 23.
They began Thursday’s ride in Eureka and will go as far as Pittsburg before taking a rest day.
(Read more: The Chanute Tribune)