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06-01-08, 07:09 PM
So I did the Toronto Becel Ride for Heart on the Bike Friday Pocket Llama today. Since I was heading downtown and needed to do some laundry at my girlfriend's place I thought it would be a good idea to take some laundry and do it afterward. I was running late so I didn't get a chance to drop it off before hand so I ended up taking the laundry along with me for the ride. It was a heavy load but since I had it in my panniers I figured "what would it hurt?" Plenty.
It was a windy day and a bit chilly but the riding kept me warm enough. I met my friends, my girlfriend and her friends at the event registration and off we went. It was a pretty uneventful ride, at the 50km turn around point my girlfriend and her friends decided to head back but I decided to continue with my friends. The winds on the way back were brutal and I was already tired from working 65 hours the previous week, 41 of which I had done in the past three days. Last night's sleep was interrupted with a call from work at 2:30am for some technical advice. I was far from being at my best, I slogged it out though.
On my second half of the ride I met some interesting people, a family of cyclists, one on a recumbent and two on folding bikes. The woman was riding the recumbent and the child on a little Giatex 16" and the man on a Strida. pretty cool, a quirk bunch to say the least. We chatted for a bit at a rest stop and I was off again. Later on I met a couple riding a recumbent, they mentioned that they had tested a Bike Friday Tandem Twosday recently and we talked about other folding bikes for a bit. I was cooked and couldn't keep up with them. I also met a couple on a Bike Friday tandem, they were motoring up the York Mills hill like it was nothing.
After the ride I was exhausted. I picked up my $5 Louis Garneau helmets and went to my girlfriend's place to start my laundry. Had a huge lunch at a local Firkin and went back to my girlfriend's to crash...for two hours. Woke up moments before work called with another problem; whatever.
I was hesitant to ride home, after all I had my foldie and could just hop a cab home. I'm glad I didn't. At the end of the day my GPS had logged 100.7km I sat back, had a pipe and a scotch and chilled out for a bit. I managed some good pictures, I'm kicking myself for net getting one of the tandem homemade reversible bike, one person rides facing forward and one rides facing backward - crazy!
Good to know I am in enough shape to do a metric century, even when I have already taxed my system and dragged a load of laundry with me - I guess it's utility cycling for the masochist.
It was a windy day and a bit chilly but the riding kept me warm enough. I met my friends, my girlfriend and her friends at the event registration and off we went. It was a pretty uneventful ride, at the 50km turn around point my girlfriend and her friends decided to head back but I decided to continue with my friends. The winds on the way back were brutal and I was already tired from working 65 hours the previous week, 41 of which I had done in the past three days. Last night's sleep was interrupted with a call from work at 2:30am for some technical advice. I was far from being at my best, I slogged it out though.
On my second half of the ride I met some interesting people, a family of cyclists, one on a recumbent and two on folding bikes. The woman was riding the recumbent and the child on a little Giatex 16" and the man on a Strida. pretty cool, a quirk bunch to say the least. We chatted for a bit at a rest stop and I was off again. Later on I met a couple riding a recumbent, they mentioned that they had tested a Bike Friday Tandem Twosday recently and we talked about other folding bikes for a bit. I was cooked and couldn't keep up with them. I also met a couple on a Bike Friday tandem, they were motoring up the York Mills hill like it was nothing.
After the ride I was exhausted. I picked up my $5 Louis Garneau helmets and went to my girlfriend's place to start my laundry. Had a huge lunch at a local Firkin and went back to my girlfriend's to crash...for two hours. Woke up moments before work called with another problem; whatever.
I was hesitant to ride home, after all I had my foldie and could just hop a cab home. I'm glad I didn't. At the end of the day my GPS had logged 100.7km I sat back, had a pipe and a scotch and chilled out for a bit. I managed some good pictures, I'm kicking myself for net getting one of the tandem homemade reversible bike, one person rides facing forward and one rides facing backward - crazy!
Good to know I am in enough shape to do a metric century, even when I have already taxed my system and dragged a load of laundry with me - I guess it's utility cycling for the masochist.