Wednesday Jan 24 |
 | Bike - 'bent (Gulf & back) 32:00 [3]11.3 km (2:50 / km) +180m 2:37 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Another quickie ride before dark. More ice and wet dirt. Went further this time, explored a short dirt road I'd never been down and went up to Gulf Road, then turned around and came home. Although it wasn't really dark, I would feel better with some lighting on the bike to be seen.
Still getting used to having 9 speeds in back (versus the 6 on the other bikes). Going to have to practice spinning on hills - I found cadence slowing down substantially on most grades - no problem mashing my way up, but I'd rather be spinning rather than mashing.. |
Tuesday Jan 23 |
| Bike - 'bent (East Porter) 25:00 [3]11.5 km (2:10 / km) +185m 2:01 / km | |
| (sick) shoes: Slipstream |
| Squeezed a short ride in before dark. Icy patches in places and quite a bit of wet sand still on the road. Down to Grahaber, then up Webster to East Porter and return. Caught the shoelaces on the chainring a couple times - have to find a solution to that. Also need to move the steering tie rod in slightly. Other than that the bike rode very nicely, though the engine needs quite a bit of work at this point.
I guess this means my training for the PMC has begun... |
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| C • shoelaces 10 |
Monday Jan 22 |
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| (sick) |
| Well this sucks... had the new bike a week now and still haven't gotten it on the road. Have an old wind trainer and some other misc parts lying around - I'll have to see if I can't rig up something to at least ride in the basement until I can get it outside. But between work (on another 12 day stretch now), kids activities in the evenings & such - getting the bike on the road before February doesn't look likely..
And a pretty good chest cold has settled in too so I'm not terribly excited about the prospect of late night and damn cold explorations in the dark right now... |