Looking Ahead 😵💫 It’s time for looking ahead; and I don’t only mean keeping your eyes on the road while cycling. We aren’t to the middle of March yet; but hurricane season is already looming. At the moment, the tropics are quiet; but they’ve generated storms as early as April. That means it isn’t too […]
See-Saw 🥵🥶 Our weather thinks it’s a see-saw. It teeters back and forth between almost-hot and chilly; and can’t decide whether to be stormy or not. That can make it hard to plan a ride. If it will be 70 degrees or more by the time I’m done, will vest plus jacket make me too
Saving Daylight? ☀️ Are we really saving daylight? It sounds like cramming sunbeams into a piggy bank to use later — and needing more sunblock as a result — but I don’t enjoy this “spring forward” business. At all. Before I retired, it took me at least a week of feeling jet-lagged before I could
Gotta Say No Sometimes 👎 I’ve gotta say no sometimes — say, when it’s overcast; T-storms are possible; and wind gusts are reaching 30 mph. Not my favorite riding conditions! It wasn’t bad before 8:30 am. I made a trip to the supermarket 🥕🍎; hoping during the entire ride that I would beat the rain
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Too Much Screen Time? ⎚ I think I’ve been getting too much screen time; and it isn’t all my bicycle computer. Or maybe too much time in the sun wearing cheap-o sunglasses? My good sunglasses broke not quite a month ago; and they couldn’t be repaired. They were prescription lenses, too; and cost an arm
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IS It Coming? 🛬 “IS it coming?” is the question in many a cyclists’s mind when bad weather is possible. Will it rain; or won’t it? If I rode an e-bike, I might be worried about the battery shorting out. Actually, I suppose those batteries are designed to keep water out; but is an e-bike
Safe Harbor ⛵️ Any sailor wants to reach safe harbor ahead of foul weather. We cyclists are the same. Of course there are rain suits; but I, for one, would prefer to not need them. And if there’s rain, there is also the possibility of lightning; and even hail. I’m glad I reached safe
Double Dozen 🪺 I’m up to a double dozen miles! It’s great to be riding 24 miles of a Sunday. “Dozen”, of course, sounds like eggs; and, by extension, ovals. I like Breakfast Ovals; but they weren’t on today’s ride menu. They’re a bit too crumbly for on-bike food. Anyway, I had a pretty good
Lion or Lamb? 🦁🐑 Is March playing lion or lamb for you? Night before last — or maybe early yesterday morning — it sure seemed like the lion. I woke up, and heard thunder and heavy rain. But since then, it’s been more of a lamb. The wind dropped; and the ride to the salvage
All Clear? ☀️ I wish our weather would give us an all clear; but the forecast through next Thursday shows chances of rain every day! Well, maybe I won’t need that lip balm; or sunblock, either. But that’s about the only upside to riding in the rain when the temperature is below 80 degrees. My