Things I learned tonight!

[Aquila]

Don't breathe thru your mouth

Mmmm, extra protein!

(You know, some people carry all sorts of fancy biking food for that, but you got yours fresh!)

[boy in a kilt]

Light and Motion Vega. A little expensive but:

1) Has 4 settings- high will go for about 90 minutes, will sometimes make cars flash their high beams at you, medium is good for around 2-3 hours, low beam about 6-8 hours (my normal setting in town) and flashing mode. I use this mode when I want my friends to think they are being followed by a cop.

When your battery is low, it'll automatically drop down to low beam and the green light at the back will flash at you.

2) Smart charge- I've left it plugged in for months with no apparent loss of battery

3) Solid mount- Plus comes with spare parts to fix the most common problem

4) simple- all sealed. It's heavy but it's basically one solid piece.

[Di bear]

I breathe through my mouth. It's great! You get a TON OF AIR. You just have to develop your spitting reflex.

[FlyingScot]

It was the choking that was getting to me. I rode thru and absolute swarm of gnats...gross.

[SouthernBelle]

I'm a mouth breather. When it was first warming up in the spring and I swallowed my first bug of the year, I was so excited.

[Scarlet]

get a buff and use it
its so handy in the heat of summer along those lanes when the farmer has cut the hay and the flies are buzzin'

I wish we had a summer this year its rained soooooooo much

JOKE
how can you tell a happy cyclist?

By the number of flies on their teeth!!!!!

Scarlet x

[Geonz]

Some of the things you're experiencing are why roads can be safer than paths

When I don't actually have a Christmas Tree on my bike, I still like to be lit up like one. When I went back to "regular" lights after last Christmas, I noticed a tangible - not huge, but tangible - difference in when the folks I share the byways with reacted to my presence, and how much space they gave to me. Now that we're going into Dark Seasons, I have to figure out the fancy stuff. I'll be going online to see if, somewhere, there are those strings of battery powered lights on sale outside of the "holiday" season...