Originally Posted by Flimflam
Yeah, I've moved temporarily to Bloor/Ossington area, so my ride in is very short. I'm actually moving a little more west on Roncesvalles - so once settled in there, I'll be able to make use of High Park in part of my rides.
That sounds pretty cool. On days when MUPs are not snowed in, you could do a couple of warm-up loops of High Park and then ride on Martin Goodman trail.
Good ride upto my class last night, only my U-lock (OnGuard) fell out of it's mount and half the bottom plastic casing broke off, which I collected from the road along with the lock. I'll have to ask them re: warranty on that one. The lock fell off AGAIN this morning on Harbord, which leads me to think that the locking mechanism that holds it in the mount is broken. Not a big deal to keep it in the backpack, but still, not ideal.
I think the general consensus is that those plastic attachments are just too flimsy and will fall apart unless you only ride smooth MUPs at 10 km/h.
What I do with my U-lock is bungee-cord it to the rack. I know bungees do break eventually, but even if that happens, given the way I put it in, the U-lock is unlikely to fall out, it'll just start rattling like crazy (don't ask me how I know
).
Managed to hit 24mph (38km/h I think) for sure (didn't see a 25, but it might've got there), which beat me up pretty good (sprints were never my thing
) for a casual coast into work from Richmond/Spadina down to Camden, across to Brant and south to King.
Cool! I notice I usually go faster when there is traffic around, especially when I'm taking the lane. Everything just goes more smoothly when speed differential is smaller. Also I think maybe the prey instict kicks in (where I'm the prey, I mean
). And I'm guess I'm concentrating on the traffic dynamics and not noticing the pain as much... Sometimes in those situations I find myself doing things I didn't know I was capable of (like going at 32 km/h up the Yonge hill toward St. Clair...
I thought my bike computer's gone cuckoo...)