Riding bikes has long been my most creative activity. I’ve solved many problems and come up with ideas for so many things over 10s of thousands of miles. Even while doing the hardest intervals.
Yesterday, I came up with an app idea and even a potential name.
I’ve ended the day serving as a bike mechanic…🤷🏻♂️ We decided to swap the bars with his older (size smaller) bike, because the new one is slightly too big for him, measuring freakishly wide 700mm…
He’s 7 and the bike is designed for kids age 8-11. Previously I replaced the tires so it’s now lower to the ground and shoved the saddle all the way to the front…😂
Garage sale buy of the day, LOL. Needed another bike bell. Bought this from a little kid who had outsourced a garage sale to his parents... apparently the kids got bored and wandered away from their garage sale. $1! #BikeTooter#garagesale
I’m always a little conflicted about riding my mountain bike on the road to get to the mountain bike trails. It’s mainly that it always feels so slow compared to my road or cyclocross bikes. However, riding to the trail only adds about 6 minutes versus driving there, which means more riding time overall, which is good. 🤷♂️
Among the many benefits of shaving your legs as a cyclist, it gives ticks a lot less to grab ahold of to hitch a ride.
A number of the less-wooded areas of the mountain bike trail had tall weeds and grass leaning in right at leg level, and ticks are definitely common here.
I’ve been running 38mm Panaracer GravelKing tires tubeless on my Soma Stanyan for years, but the front tire I just put on has enough wobble to rub in one spot on every rotation. (The wheel itself is true.)
Two shops told me that the tire wasn’t seated right, but I checked and remounted multiple times and it’s seating fine. Even used some rubbing alcohol to lubricate the tire where it seated, but it always mounts up perfectly fine. The tire is the problem.
The second shop gave the real answer after chatting with the folks there for a bit: I should go down a size. It’s a real bummer, but even the Soma website says it can do up to 35mm. :blobfoxsad:
The only other realistic alternative is a new frameset, or at least a new fork, but that will have to wait for a while. :blobfoxgooglycry:
'However, figures published this week show injuries on the roads fell by a third in the final quarter of last year compared to the same period a year earlier. After a review, the Welsh government agreed to more 30mph exemptions but insisted that most roads should remain at 20mph.’
The hysteria about 20mph was just that - rabble rousing based on no attention to the details. That included Times reporting.
I should add that for 5 months of the year we live in the Scottish Borders (migrate north during the winter for reasons). We have had 20mph limits on most roads in towns and village for some years - actually a Conservative policy, supported by most - and it has made a noticeable difference to traffic and pedestrians during that time.
I think I found a way to hold pizza boxes on Cargot Robbie that I like. I have some quick clamps and I can slide them between the cargo bags and the frame, and that's a enough to keep the boxes in place, even on a bumpy ride. Maybe next I'll find a way to 3D print some brackets to hold them in place without risking the paint?
While finishing up my ride this evening, I watched a driver in front of me drive right through a blatantly red light. Not changing from yellow to red as they went under it, solid red as they entered the intersection. I’m probably hyper aware as a cyclist, but even while driving it seems like I see more people running red lights everywhere. Does anyone else?
Heute fahren wir eine kurze Etappe, dafür gibt es am Abend mit dem Besuch der Mezquita noch eine Portion Kultur und Geschichte.
Die heutige Etappe bezeichnete die Reiseleitung als “aktive Erholung”. In der Tat waren es nur gerade 60 Kilometer, auf eher flachem Gelände. Ein einziges Mal wurden wir von einer währschaften Rampe überrascht, die andern Höhenmeter entstanden durch welliges Gelände. ...
Checked off "bought cheapest beer possible before 130pm and bicycled it home" on the bike tooter achivement list. #BikeTooter (Edit: just for clarity, these are for my slugs, I do have a driver's license and no DUI arrest, I do own a car, and I don't drink beer.)
** this could also be "the Everyday Life Of Florida Man Who Lost His Driver's License To Drunk Driving And Is Day Drinking Himself To Oblivion" (but no, these are for my slugs).
ps. Apparently "Old Milwaukee" is WAY cheaper, but it's completely sold out at that grocery store. And they have someone manning the extra door there, which is normally locked, but he'll ring you up and let you out the side door to save you the embarrassment of being seen by your neighbors buying very, very, very awful cheap beer before noon 😂
