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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Pea pod 3 installed

Here is my handsome model who is probably only going to be able to ride in it for this summer. Thought we were going to get out for a spin today, but it kept threatening rain. Hopefully Saturday.







Monday, April 11, 2011

It's Spring!

Didn't take any pictures this weekend except this one.




My riding this weekend started Thursday evening when I expanded my evening commute from 25 to 36 miles. With a brief interruption of rain and work on Friday, my riding continued on Saturday where I met up with a friend to ride the Mohican State Park 25 mile mountain bike loop. We followed that up with a little beer tasting. My friend has recently switched hobbies from endurance mountain bike racing to brewing beer. We sampled his Doppelbock versus Great Lakes Doppelbock. Both were great, same flavor, but the homebrew was better for the simple fact that the flavor hits earlier, and last longer. I think the filtering of the commercial brewery takes some of that away.

After the beer tasting, I decided I wanted to ride more so I went to Vultures Knob in Wooster for a quick 7 mile loop. I ran in to a customer there, who's bike I had just overhauled a few days before. We had a couple beers and talked for a bit about bikes and life. What a great day I had, 4 hours int he woods and some beers.

Sunday was supposed to have a high of 80 so I wasn't going to pass up commuting to work. I rode my Surly Big Dummy in, because I had to take clothes and food with me. I took a little longer route in to enjoy the warmth and tailwind. I ended up with just shy of 31 miles in 2 hours, which was pretty good for a 50 lbs. bike! Work was busy and my legs were feeling sluggish, but it felt great. The ride home just plain sucked. Constant wind out of the south west, and that was the way I was heading. I had dinner plans with the wife, and after 20 miles in to the wind for 2 hours, for the first time, I bagged and called my wife to pick me up. Oh well, it was 80 degrees and sunny, just windy as hell! Ended the weekend with Mexican food and a beer.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Another mobile update test

The ride home on Sunday. Towpath was super rutted, and 700x25 tires with 120 PSI sucked!