Originally Posted by
Ray9
Southwestern New Hampshire:
It is a miserable spring as usual. I have been riding outside since March and I have new shoes, jackets, shirts, bib shorts, lights, gloves, goggles etc. I have been riding my number two bike mostly because it is not just cold, it is wet and windy. These are the dues I pay. I have been riding in my old shoes, but I have put a slit in one new shoe to accommodate the outside of my left foot and a cutaway in the insert for the ball of my foot. I got some nice jackets and jerseys off the clearance rack of the bike store. I saw them last year when they were new and twice the price I just paid for them. It is nice to be small and nice to be big. I am small.
It looks like it is going to rain for a week, but I just rode twelve days in a row and if I have to I will ride my indoor bike. I am currently doing just 30 miles but in a few weeks that will be 50. I do it every year. I am 78.
So yeah, normal... And if you're payin attention, then you're using the 'Old' Stuff when it's not so nice... And savin the New stuff for those times/rides when conditions are more agreeable, sortta like 'Rock Skis', using plain bait when you're fishun around real heavy snags (which is usually where the best fishun is...) , or using a older, already played out golf ball for holes where you're fairly certain to have the ball go wanderin in the woods, or goin for a swim...
as for 'old', equipment, kit and bikes are like us - already quite heavily 'loved' in prior times, but not completely worn out or ready for 'recycling'.
... as for whining about where anyone lives... consider your circumstance and environment and remember... there are 26 million living in great 'Hell-A', however many in Mexico City... and so many other places where life might be more difficult....
I'm not immune... I whine and cry about the crappy roads we have here in Santa Barbara County.... Oh Woe Is Me.... LOL!
I'm a very 'Hard' chocolate Easter Bunny...
Ride On
Yuri