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11-18-11 | 01:28 PM

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redeyedtreefr0g

Mrs. Hop-along

Joined: Oct 2009

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From: Seville, FL

Bikes: Ladies Schwinn Super Sport and Gateway

Wheeeee!!!!

It snowed for the second time here in Klamath Falls. I woke to a light dusting,but I think by the time I was ready to go home after the bus route there might have been 2 or 3 inches in some places. So despite the flurries just after Halloween, this is really my first ride in the snow.

I arrived at work looking like this:

You might see that my bike is pretty clean, the snow was just a light coating at 6:45ish. But after I got home, I realized my bike is FILTHY. I'm ashamed at it's appearance... here I'll just show you, though it's probably nothing new to you guys.

I brushed some of it off after these pictures, but a lot is still on there. I understand now the concern with snow causing chain slippage and frozen derailleurs.

I'm worried at how hard it was to pedal after a while. I'm good in 3 for most of a ride, sometimes 4, but any wind really makes it hard, and I'm still using 2 and 1 on any sort of hill. With snow on the ground and wind, I'm afraid I'll have to get off and walk- I don't have any gears left. I guess snow packed under the rear fender might have caused it, or caked around the brake pads. Will that always happen? Can I increase rear clearance somehow? It was really only an issue near the end of the ride, and after I rolled the bike through the yard, my back tire stopped turning at all until I got it on the dry porch pavement.
As much as I love parking outside my door, I'm going for the covered porch at the other one I think, now. That way I won't have snow on the bike to start with (but it sure is pretty that way)

Anyhow, I DID IT! Wheee!

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