Maybe you are missing the Ride, maybe not. In the meantime, you have some choices.
Learn to Repair a Chain: Rick the Rocket had some problems this ride, and he found his chair repair source:
Fixing the Chain
I mentioned the guy who referred me to a book written by a world-wide bike tourist,
and here's that source if you want to read the book:
Mad Dogs and an Englishman by Derek Jensen
And last, the Tour de France started today, which is a good source of vicarious
bike excitement:
Tour de France 2007
Compare their course to RTR:
Cool flash version of the 2007 Tour