Small update from the past week or so:

I did 40 miles one day last Wednesday and weighed on Thursday. I was down to 247 since the last time I weighed a month ago. So that's seven pounds lost in a month but I have had to tighten my belt twice in the last month so I'm probably dropping some lb's and hopefully gaining some muscle.

This past week I also sold the last of my conventional bikes. I have taken my old Actionbent trike and added a cargomonster kit to it. It basically converts and stretches the rear to use the Xtracycle cargo bike attachments. I've got it together but need to add a little more chain to it and am also waiting on another teracycle pulley to get it on the road.



Another simply AMAZING thing happened this week. Over the past several years I've had to go to a physical therapist to help me with chronic pain. He and I have grown to be friends and I posted a pic on facebook about my recumbent.....he sent me a text saying I got something that I think you would want. He then sent a pic and it was a Catrike 700 trike. He gave it to me for free. Someone gave it to him a few years back and he never used it. I've spent the last day and a half going through it. The guy that had it first must have been 4' tall because when I extended the boom the chain was so tight it wouldn't shift gears. So yesterday I put a new chain on it and took it out for a short spin between rain drops and was kinda disappointed with how it rode.

Today brought it back inside and removed some of the extra chain tubing that wasn't really necessary and adjusted the alignment of the front tires. They were over an inch toe to the outside. I flipped the handlebars to have them raised a little higher. I've almost got the bike dialed in. It's obvious that whoever set this bike up before had no idea of what they were doing. Here's a pic of the new one: