Preparing bikes

Most of the Canadian Team arrived yesterday in Morelia. We had a 2.5 hour delay in Amsterdam and could not catch the connecting flight to Morelia and had to spend the night in Mexico City (costs were for KLM). All riders are in and were working on their bike today. Ali rented a used KTM 300, she new the bike was used, but there was so much wrong with it when Patrick took it apart, they asked KTM for a replacement bike, She got one, a 450 KTM. Hopefully she will manage on this big machine. Karine got some help fron Metzler Wolfgang with changing here rear 19" tire, Wolfgang was able to help her and get the tire on.
The weather is wonderful, lots of sun shine, nice and warm, first thing we did today was buy some sunscreen, a little bit to much sun made our skin nice and red yesterday.
The site of the impound area is very nice, on top of a hill. close to a shopping mall, unfortunately the mall is still being build on so no shopping, we found a nice coffee shop that servers great coffee and good sandwiches. The view from the balcony of the mall is great you can see the whole city. The traffic in the city is nuts, everybody is racing.