Tuesday December 12th Rides

[Fredwina]

I got to try out my new lighting system. A little fine tuning, and it's a lot better than my old. did some exploring to give a good test over unfamilar roads, and I went down the hill to home, and work.

[Geonz]

It tried to drizzle on me in the morning, and I *almost* got between the showers in the afternoon. If I'd left when I said I would instead of reading one more thread on Bikejournal, I'd have made it to my door before the downpour
My rear lights are giving me issues... there seems to be a curse on them. They break or fall off or the sproingers connected to the batteries get ftummmeled...

[Bike Goddess]

Jobob- It was raining up our way too! I would have stayed home too!

Fortunately, I had the day off, so when Sarah got to my place, we decided to go out, rain or shine. She's going to visit her parents, then a week in Yosemite over Christmas (poor thing) so it meant ride yesterday OR no riding for almost 3 weeks!!!!

By the time we left our place it was about 2:20PM. We had lots of fog to navigate through and some drizzle as we headed north (over to Fairfield), but I figured we could slog our way through the mess, car traffic and all!

41.43 miles later and about 6:00, we made it back to Benicia. It turned out to be a really nice ride with one exception.... we were covered with muddy splatter from the wet roads and the traffic as were our bikes! We spent about 1/2 hour cleaning the bikes so at least they were halfway respectable (including getting stuff out of my tires). That's really one of my big complaints about rain- my bike when I get back from a ride!!!!

Sometimes around here, if you wait long enough, you MIGHT have a chance to ride!