5/22 rides..Don't try this at home

[OakLeaf]

Eeek! Be careful out there! Glad you found someone who didn't mind getting their truck soaked.

[crazycanuck]

Trekhawk, i think the trails & hills can wait til next week! I thought about just riding uphill from Mundaring to Kal but urmm i'd most likely be blown downhill

I wondered about riding from my fave cafe today to freo but then realized the wind along the route would just be triple . I know i made the right choice when i saw the news tonight about a famous concrete marker at Cottesloe beach being blown over!

[Crankin]

CC, that weather sounds frightful! Be careful.
Went for a 19 mile flattish ride. It was HOT. Even though the thermometer said 79 when we got back, it felt a lot hotter. Not a really shady route.
I felt better than yesterday, but still trying to baby my neck and back.
If I hear the weather person say "it feels like Phoenix out there," one more time, I might throw something at the TV!

[Biciclista]

yikes! sounds like a good day to stay home and make cookies or something!

[hipmama]

Crazy ride here today too, what's up?!
Morning was good, was out just doing drills practice- doing my LCI training seminar/certification this weekend and need to tune up some stuff there.
Then had plans to tandem out to a friends house which would give us a 30 mile round trip- good since it's almost 90 degrees out. Got my period which traditionally means it's not going to be a good ride. I feel fine but something bad always happens!
So, we got 5 miles out and my front crank about falls off We're about 1 mile from a bike shop, and on the wrong side of a really busy street to get to it, so I shove it in and rig it up to be able to gently pedal at a low gear to get to the shop where they tell me it was never assembled right - one of the screws wasn't tapped in and I have to go drill the hole, or leave it there for 2 weeks, which was when they would be able to get to it because they are so busy. So they tighten it up enough that we can take it home and I take another route to avoid the hills and construction I would normally be going through and we take a longer quieter route- which I don't normally take and forgot that there's about a 6" dropoff from the side of the road, no bike lane, and a vehicle lane not wide enough to share, in rush hour traffic. So we forced a shared lane and wobbled our way home. Ugh!
Set up with a rack to put the tandem on tomorrow and someone to help me with the drilling, I really don't want to mess that up.
Did get home to random cyclist who I kind of know from here and there parked in front of my house and climbing the fence (he could have used the gate, he's just a little funny) to drop off bike route maps for all through NY for us, so that was pretty sweet. I paid him in cold water.