General Purpose Daily Ride thread

[KnottedYet]

Congrats on the new bike, Zen!

[Zen]

Congrats on the new bike, Zen!

That brings me to four and two spin bikes.

one Trek pilot
one Mariposa in the shop
one old hard tail Haro that will go to Bikes For the World
and this Nomad

i blame you

[Starfish]

i blame you

Grasshopper, grasshopper. No one is to blame for new bikes. One is simply the leaf, floating on the stream. Bikes are inevitable.

[IFjane]

That brings me to four and two spin bikes.

one Trek pilot
one Mariposa in the shop
one old hard tail Haro that will go to Bikes For the World
and this Nomad

i blame you

From one who has one and only one bike in her stable (but would love more - except I think Godiva would be soooo jealous if I got another), I bow to you, Oh Zen!


Congratulations!

socks???? for me? for me?

[Zen]

From one who has one and only one bike in her stable (but would love more

We'll have to do something about that

Today would have been a great day for a ride. On my way into town I encountered two riders who surely were out only to make me jealous.

I got two dogs their rabies shots, got one dog microchipped (low funds due to more important expenditures) and got one dog's nails clipped.
Very productive.

[IFjane]

We'll have to do something about that

Yay!

I do plan to do something about it, maybe by summer? Certainly in time to make the Canal ride....

[wackyjacky1]

I rode my longest ride so far since getting my bike last week. Don't know the exact mileage (don't have a cyclometer yet) but I rode for an hour and fifteen minutes. (I must admit it was mostly on very flat terrain, with the exception of the stretch going back home which is almost entirely uphill on a slight grade.) So maybe it was somewhere between 12-15 miles?

Baby steps...

BTW it got up to 92 degrees here today. Niiice!

[Triskeliongirl]

Yes indeed, the bank thermometer said 92 as I rode by on my commute home. Great commuting day! Morning was cooler, hi 50s, so I rode in with my new Ibex arm and knee warmers. Pulled the arm warmers off after 4 miles but the knee warmers were just perfect. Stuffed them all in my handle bar bag for the ride home.

Tomorrow lows are supposed to be 37 and highs in the 70s, so again I'll try the ibex knee warmers with warm tall socks and ibex arm warmers under my PI vagabound jacket for the ride in. I don't have leg warmers anymore that fit, but I am hoping with the right socks I can make the knee warmers work like leg warmers. Hmmm, maybe I need to go out and buy some wool knee socks, cuz if I wear tights in the morning I'll overheat riding home.

BTW the ibex knee warmers are just amazing. I realized today that they are definitely right and left specific, and fit much better when one pays attention to that! Arm warmers were a bit hot, but perfect for tomorrow.

p.s. Wackyjacky, why not show up for a wheelmen ride next weekend? Just google us on the web (san antonio wheelmen) for the ride schedule.

[Zen]

Today the thermometer at the bank said "wet".

[sundial]

I can't seem to find enough days to ride outdoors with all this crazy weather. I really, really wish for sunny days and peeper frogs.

[Eden]

Yee-hah. I got outside on my race bike (my Ruby) for the first time since last September. I always forget (after a nice rainy, gritty winter or riding my rain bike) how SPECTACULAR it feels to ride that bike.

[kelownagirl]

I went for a cruise on my roadie for the first time this season too. We needed two cars today (and only have one insured) so I rode my bike to school, then to the gym after school, and then to my massage appt. Only got 8km in but there were loverly...