Warm and windy, ice is melting
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Barrier Island roads in the winter...mine, all mine
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@ascherer, @Vonruden, great pics as usual! Good day to ride.

Well, it was a good day here too. Last week we did our first tandem ride of the year, today I did my first short solo ride, a quick, chilly 20 miles out to Lexington and back. It was also the first ride on the Tommasini since switching the shifting over from 8-speed indexing to friction. It's a different beast, shifting 8 speeds with friction. But the sprockets' tooth counts are so close together it doesn't matter if you overshift occasionally. They're all good. It was also the first ride with the newly bejeweled brake calipers.

http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...keAndBench.jpg

http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...ikeAndPole.jpg

http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...ikeAndSign.jpg

http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...8/BobbyMac.jpg

Thanks, @jimmuller. About 7 years back, when we were first courting, my wife lived with her kids in Sudbury. I loved riding in that area, although I never did the trail.

Very handsome bag @jimmuller! It complements the Tommasini very nicely. Who made it? Is it attached with one of the old Cannondale-style coathangers that wrap around the bars and stem?
Brent

Out for a short one on the Olympic Discovery Trail on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The sun was out but there was a helluva' wind blowing....gale force in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Pic below is where the trail crosses the Elwha River. I was ridding a single speed.

Dean

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Thanks. That is a Dill Pickle bag, made by famous randonneuse Emily Obrien (who happens to live in the Boston area, and who rides Raleigh Pro ( I think it is) fixed-gear). I think the website is dillpicklegear.com. They aren't cheap but they are very very very well-made and designed. It has straps that go around the bar but the main support is by loops over the brake hoods. I hate metal bag supports, which is why I like this one so much. I have one on many of my bikes.

Gosh, does the MM have mile markers that match the color of your other bikes and HB bags too?

MM is now on my list for this season, having been rained off it last summer. Wanna do the Farmington trail with me too some time?

Those signs are new. The problem now is I can only ride certain bikes.:o

The Farmington Trail sounds great. Working out time and opportunity is always the biggest problem.

The bag caught my eye too. Thanks for the info.

You should send her the picture for her site. It certainly makes for a great example of her work.

time to start saving my money.

False modesty Jim? Probably coordinated the signs with that Tommasini build, didn't you:innocent:

Bill

OOOPPs, wrong Forum, not SnowSliders.Heaven
 

Photo by Northbend.
'Follow the Light to Nirvana'.

Yes, it's all gone because we've had some warm weather. We've had wide swings in temperature, which I'm told are part of climate change. The previous upswing caused some flooding upstate where it doesn't usually flood. The snow melted fast, and the ground was frozen, causing the floods. One of our roads was closed. Now it looks like they plowed the ice onto the fields beside the road.

It was called a bomb cyclone because it was a strange and special kind of blizzard. It's where you lose 24 millibars or more in 24 hours, which is an unusually large drop.

I have enormous respect for you folks with actual winters to endure. That white stuff is beautiful, but to actually have to drive through/ride through/shovel/bundle up against it... no thanks. I need my sun!

The weather here is back to "what winter?" mode, so I donned my shorts and fluorescent t-shirt and took my Fuji on a 32-mile ride north this morning.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Bike/Fuji...1%20146-XL.jpg

I rode north along the greenbelt, which is an 11-mile-long string of parks and golf courses in Scottsdale. I've heard about the recent explosion of dockless bike rentals, but this was my first time seeing it first-hand. I like the idea, in general, but some people don't understand that some places are not okay to leave a bike. Also, do we really need so many? There were hundreds of these things in just a few miles, and I didn't see a single person actually using one.

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Anyway, I got a copper Crane bell for Christmas, and I put it to good use today. It was one of those days that reminds you why we have so many snowbirds, and they were all out on the paths this morning. The bell is much nicer than yelling, that's for sure. I think the sound carries better, too.

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My sweetie and took the tandem out again today. The weather was cool, sky overcast, roads wet from snow melt and drizzle this morning. We ended up with 48.3 miles. Our prime destination was Heart Pond in Chelmsford.

Some sights from today:

My sweetie at the beach.
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We had the beach all to ourselves, except for that guy ice fishing out in the distance.
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Ferns was nearly deserted, no bikes at all except ours.
http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...EmptyFerns.jpg

Of course the bike got a bit dirty. That's how we judge how much fun we had, the dirtier the better!
http://www.theworld.com/~muller/pics...018/Dirty1.jpg

This is not a thorough street.
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This is.
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It was a good day.

@DQRider, thanks. I think my limit is normally 20ºF or 25ºF, depending on wind, though I did ride in 15ºF recently.

Too bad Pete Hickey's Winter Cycling Tips is no longer available. He wrote it long ago. He's a professor in Ottawa and commutes by bike year round. His advice and his pictures were quite eye opening.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4717/...5c96eaa1_k.jpg20180128_160031 by Luan Pham, on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4760/...142c4a5e_k.jpg20180128_162710 by Luan Pham, on Flickr
Fullerton Loop again.

I went to the Des Moines bike expo Saturday the 27th. I didn't spend much time at the expo but I got pretty good ride in on the intown trails. It was 56 degrees and sunny. I didn't want to go home...

Low 60's today no rain in sight.

-D


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Goat Rock Sonoma by djk762, on Flickr

I finally put together my old beater '84 Panasonic Sport 1000! Got it almost done yesterday and went out for just 15 minutes, so cold! Everything checked out so sitting around bored today I thought heck let's shake her down. 22 mph wind from the south, but at 34°F it was above freezing! Whatever now I can post to C&V ha ha!

First I thought, ok we'll do 13 miles. Then I was like heck let's take it out of town. Either way I ended up on the high trestle and put down 56 miles today. Coming back sure was fun with the wind to my back! Full speed in 52x14 :lol:

Gosh darn that's amazing. Skip any rocks?

Peoria, IL Rail Trail. Mid 20s, but very little wind.

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All of our rain and snow seems to be going up north to @Wildwood and @northbend. Warm and sunny here and talk of drought...what are you gonna do but ride right?

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Zunow and Quince by djk762, on Flickr

What a GORGEOUS Photo! All the colors, including the bikes just work well together. :)