Sunday Rides, November 14

[Cataboo]

We've had some gorgeous weather here lately, mid 60s or so and sunny.

Friday afternoon, Kmerzhad and I did about a 30 mile ride around the countryside - through 3 covered bridges and when we were stopped to admire some birds that a farmer had, he saw us and told us that we could go in with them. I always stop to look at his white peacocks, he had some piebald ones this time:







Sat, R & I tried to go mountain biking, we did about 2 miles and then when he needed to adjust his front derailleur, he dropped the washer & lost it... and that was the end of that mountain biking trip.

This morning, I met up with my older brother to go mountain biking, just mostly some nice mostly easy singletrack - with the fall colors, it was gorgeous:





I picked up a mountain bike off of craigslist after that, just a great deal that I couldn't resist and it lets me have a mountain bike at R's house and one at mine (I hate having to drive an hour each way to get a bike). It looked barely used, and I think after I swap the stem and handlebars I'll be in good shape.

After that, we had thanksgiving dinner early with my Mom since some of us will be gone for thanksgiving... I got my 9 year old niece on "Scar" after dinner and biked up and down the street with her - she's too scared to ride the 24" bike I got her last year 'cause she thinks it's too big 'cause her feet don't completely reach the ground when she's sitting on the seat. Scar's a 26" wheel, 13' frame, so I eventually got her comfortable on him - I have no idea what my sister or her husband have been up to, but noone had told the girl to do obvious things like lean the bike to the side when you get off and slide forward off the saddle when you're getting off, to start with the pedal up,and how to shift and brake. I had her zipping down hills after a bit. To be fair, my sister had a really bad bike accident when she was 15 and hasn't been on a bike since and is terrified of them and has imparted the fear to her daughter. It was cute to see her stop and shift gears to go up hills, etc. Scar's cables had stretched since he'd been made, so I tuned him up a bit.

So it was a fun weekend

[Catrin]

Beautiful pictures Cataboo! That singletrack looks like something that perhaps my LHT could handle. I still want to try her out on dirt, I just need to find something that doesn't have obstacles...