River Torrens, Linear Park ?

It hit 50° today in Chicago and I finally got a chance to take out my new bike.

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Closer to home, Apex Park, Hawthorndene. Funnily enough, we rode along the Torrens the day before, to Bonython Park. In fact, My (almost) 2 year old and I went for 4 rides this weekend, she enjoyed most of it.

Sweet new cyclocross bike, [MENTION=359972]lesscan[/MENTION] !

This week in the Valley of the Sun....spring training, and airshow.

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Thanks WNG!

She rides pretty nice too!

Oh my! Beautiful photo of that Boeing F4B

WNG, nice pics!

Rhetorical question: Where do the Diamondbacks go for spring training? Wisconsin? Mexico? Florida?

It's a great path to ride with kids. I live just over an hour north of the city from there and use to drive in and ride before my back op but I used to ride it like a race course then ride along the coast.

It is! And my daughter loves to ride her own wheeled machines around Apex Park.
I've been getting a bit silly with the Raleigh Superbe when solo, looking forward to getting my Healing 'path racer' project rolling when I find a headset. The Superbe really isn't suite to spirited riding on the dirt.

Tire troubles

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Whoa! What the...?!

+1, That's a first!

<Arnie> It's not a tumah.

It's a zit...pop it and be on your way :rolleyes:

Not a Boeing. It is a replica of....something. It is similar to a Curtiss Hawk. Built by John Pike. No matter what, a nice pic and a cool bipe.

Not my bike, but JJScaliger's on a ride last November. It went Bang! before the ride was over.

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He shoulda booted that thing with some of that sweet parchment he collects :)

Not possible. It is, er I mean it was a sew-up. :D It booted him instead.

This what I woke up to this morning:

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Not really great for riding in.

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I had to revamp the stoker drive setup on our tandem. My son's growing at a pretty good clip these days, and we've had to raise the seat a lot since last fall. The issue with the kid stoker kit, it has a 42 tooth ring while the stoker crank has a 36. In the past I had the kid kit raised high as to keep the crank arms from bangin each other. Well I finally got around to putting a 42t ring on the stoker(so I could lower the kid cranks, and the saddle height as well).

Hopefully in another year, He'll be tall enough so we can 86 the kid crank.

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Spring is here, with a vengeance. That means flowers

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Pre-ride wrenching

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(Three Giants? How did that happen? I swear, only two are mine!)

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And my sister got me some nice socks! quite fitting since I now have TWO shimano equiped bikes (gasp!)

^ What a thoughtful, and enabling sister!

those tire "bubbles" are blows, where air is trapped inside between the cords in the curing process. Return to manufacturer, thats a warrantable issue.

She is! Even better, she and a couple of friends in her training group (she does all kinds of Tough Mudder races, running events etc.) don't say no to a good bike training either, so we've plenty of opportunities to ride together.