June 7th rides

[redrhodie]

I got out before the temps got silly. It was swampy damp, but there was an ocean breeze that felt good.

I almost ate pavement while signaling a left turn while flying down a hill. Did a scary "s" thing with bike almost going down left, overcompensating the recovery, then almost going down right. That was fun! Proud I stayed vertical!

Did something like 25 sticky miles.

Oh, and I found a broken link on my brand new Sram chain. That was causing the mystery click I had been hearing. Really lucky I found it, and it didn't find me (on my butt). An entire side plate was missing, and of course, my LBS had never seen that before. I'm lucky like that. Now, why can't I win the lottery? Had them upgrade me to a Shimano chain. I've lost all faith in Sram.

[mimitabby]

Raleighdon was getting ready to ride to a place where we were going to meet DS and his GF. I had been looking forward to the quiet time alone with a book, maybe i could nod off; i was feeling kind of sleepy.
It's time for him to leave, looking all snappy in his bike duds and he says "you want to go?" I whine (or as CC would say, whinge) I was just getting all comfy and am feeling kind of like taking a nap. He says well you don't HAVE to go, but would you like to?
So I drag my carcass off the nice warm sofa and get on my bike. We rode up to the north end, where KNotted Yet was waiting (I gave her an Obama spoke card and some books she was buying from me)
Then we had our meeting with our son and GF and turned around to go home. It was now 4ish and even more cold and damp (this is June of course) so we donned our raincoats and headed back down the hill. Raleighdon took us along the waterfront and on some of our favorite roads and paths. About 3 miles from home the mist became rain and i was quite wet when i arrived home with 32 more miles on my odometer.