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Old 05-02-25 | 08:54 AM
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From: SE Wisconsin, USA

Bikes: Trek: Domane AL3, Checkpoint SL7; Priority Apollo 11, ZiZZO Forte + eBikes

Yesterday afternoon, I drove home to get my bike then come back up to the brewpub to meet my colleagues for trivia night. The team I usually am with (Don't Call Me Shirleys) was a little bitter that I broke off and made my own team. We usually don't do better than about 5th place. My little work team (Snappy Power) took 1st and won a $30 gift card to the place, so a couple of them were kind of sour about that, hehehe.

It was misting again when I left for downtown, but had stopped when it was time to return home. I got 11 miles there on the eBike. Battery was down to 28% when I got home, so I plugged it in and set the timer for 2 hours. It was at 75% this morning when I left.

This morning, it had just stopped raining when it was time to head to work. Back on the eBike, as it has the nice full fenders. I only used assistance to make one stale green light and start from a stop sign where I stopped and then the car (who was supposed to go) waved me on so I was in too high of a gear. So eBike ride but I did 99% of the work. It's 15% chance of rain all day, so the bike will probably get rained on at some point.

In the pic below, I'm the one popping my head out, 3rd from left, to be seen by the camera. The bearded guy, 4th from left, moved to Poland a couple months ago and was able to keep his job and have our European branch pay his salary. He's back in town for a couple weeks, so I invited my work section to come out and play trivia and have some good local brews & cheese curds.



Tomorrow is the Wisconsin Marathon, which takes place in my city (Kenosha) and for which I volunteered as a course marshal. So I'll be riding at least 37 miles tomorrow: 5 miles downtown and back, then 26.2 for the marathon.

I can't decide if I should take the eBike, as the pavement in my city is just awful and it has front suspension and a suspension seatpost, or my gravel bike, so as not to appear to be a wimp riding an eBike while wearing my bike club kit...
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