The other day I was riding to work. Pumping along. Nice and fast. I needed extra cooling, so I was riding with my mouth open. And then it happened. This post is aiming to be a rant you see, and I feel that I need to write it in my best ranty style. It seems…
Category: Bike
Bike maintenance
I’ve been noticing that the ride to and from work has been becoming more and more effort. At first I thought it was just that I am getting slacker in my old age or something, but tonight on the way home I noticed that the rear tire was looking a little squooshed when I sat…
Dirty wheel rims
It turns out that it basically doesn’t rain in California in the summer (or so I am assured by the people at work), so now that the weather is nice again I have been riding to work at lot more. I am suffering from a problem I hadn’t considered though, mainly because I normally only…
Wanted: a rear wheel bike computer
Catherine picked up a fluid based resistance trainer for her bike today. Because the front wheel doesn’t move when she rides on this thing, she also needs a bike computer which can be mounted on the rear wheel. Suggestions?
Modified bike commute down L’avineda Street
I tweaked the bike commute this morning, and in return for spending the same amount of time on roads as before (but much busier roads), I pretty much cut the commute in half. It’s a bit of a shame really, because it no longer feels like a real ride because it’s too short. Now I…
Rode to work, and lived
It’s been a couple of weeks since I have ridden to work. First I had a sore back, then the bike needed a service, and then it rained a lot. This was also my first ride with cleated pedals, which was very exciting. These two factors resulted in my slowest ride to work yet, but…
My first commuting crash
And gosh it was stupid. I was riding home last night, and suddenly I notice my shoe lace on the left hand side getting tighter, and tighter. I stop the bike ok, because if figure the shoe lace is trapped in some of the twirly bits of the bike (it was wrapped around the crank…
New tyres
I ended up getting new tyres for the bike… I thought about getting airless tyres, but in the end just got random tyres from Mike’s Bikes who came highly recommended on a mailing list at work, and seemed really nice. I got Specialised tyres randomly, and they’re really good. I can’t remember their name now…
Water, wheels, tyres (tires?) and computers
Random updates on cycling… Water: apparently water is wet. Specifically, I hadn’t realised how wet fog was until I rode to work yesterday… Visibility was down to about 150 meters, and I ended up having to take my glasses off to ride so that I could see where I was going. When I got to…
Do I look sexy in these?
After years of resisting Lycra, I’ve given in and bought my first pair of bike shorts. I know I can get pairs that look like real shorts, but I figured that given the reason that I wanted to change was because of fabric rubbing, I should go with something which isn’t likely to move around…