At 6:28 am: I’ll have to hope for the best today. It isn’t raining just now; but the wind is already 22 mph! Thanks to the wind, I decided to go ride a few circuits of the local park; and I made it a short ride. I think it will be wise not to ride […]
Plan for the worst; and hope for the best. That’s all we can do when it comes to cycling and weather; and it looks like our weather will be terrible tomorrow; especially from early afternoon onwards. By late morning today, the wind was already 20 mph. Tomorrow morning T-storms are possible from 7:00 am; and I hope
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There are things that I should have down pat by now; or at least, so I think. Among them is handling a water bottle on the road bike. I still can’t do it consistently. Sometimes it goes fine; and sometimes I waver all over the place while I struggle to get that bottle back into its cage.
I’m really getting spoiled by Nictemaw! I began to use it three weeks ago; and it’s a much faster method of doing laundry than using the James washer. If I set it on the “soft” cycle, it takes only about 30 minutes to do a load; and with the James washer, it took at least
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You can’t have it both ways, they say; but that’s not always accurate. I had a lot of headwind both ways today. That happens when it’s blowing from the NNW! I rode to the salvage store; and today I took the trailer. Sometimes the wind was from the side; and it was strong enough that
Where did it go? What happened to the bad weather that seemed so likely? Of course I’m glad it didn’t storm; but it’s annoying to skip riding because of a weather threat; and then it doesn’t happen. I skipped going for a moon-view ride this month. I knew it was likely to be overcast, if
I’m going green today, for St. Patrick’s Day! “Going green” sounds like environmentalism; and I don’t know whether you could call me an environmentalist or not. I don’t drive a car; and that means I don’t produce much in the way of greenhouse gases. But that’s not much of a recommendation! But I’m far from
I’m glad of this hiatus in rain. For a while there, it was quite wearisome. All day today it was cloudy, and looked like rain; and I’m glad it didn’t rain. The mud isn’t all dried out yet! We’ve got another day of nice weather in store; and tomorrow night it’s back to showers and
Sometimes we need to rethink things; and I believe I need to rethink my long-ride eating strategy. A couple of months ago, I began to experiment with decreasing the amount of on-bike eating a little: I’d cut my energy bars into eight pieces, instead of six. I thought it seemed to work OK; but now
I once read something about using tea leaves in fortune-telling; and if they’re good at reading fortunes, maybe they can predict the weather. Or maybe a used bag from green tea will work? The online forecast shows rain chances tonight and tomorrow; and I’d like to know whether it’s really going to rain; how hard