All day yesterday I was "jones-ing" for this Syncro I followed while riding
in a long (12hr) cycle race.  A very nice one, big rack with shovel and High
Lift jack up there, a Yakima bike rack, beautiful alloy wheels, extra
lights, a side mount awning, a well kept medium blue paint job.  Nice guy
owner, but not aware of the Vanagon list.  Oregon license plates.

  We were out east of Mt. Hood, on smaller paved forest service roads.  This
Syncro was supporting a women's relay bike team and I was riding solo.
Every few miles, I'd pass the Syncro as they changed riders or got water or
whatever, and then a few minutes later, he'd go by me..With that Syncro
going by so often, it gave me something to take my mind off the legs.

  He had a bad water pump, I think..Or something causing a sound like gravel
in a clothes dryer as he went past up all these mountain roads.  I didn't
really get a chance to talk to him, but I surely did like his van...and his
women's bike team was OK, too.
  Don Hanson