Fellow bike commuters here have spoken eloquently and poetically in person about the realization of how amazing it is to use a bike to get to work. Citing that it might only take them an extra 5-10 minutes to get to work compared to driving in. For me, it is almost equal if I drive or ride straight to work. With the trailer it changes things a touch longer.
With KOB coming up on saturday and little saddle time of significance on the Adroit. Well I took off the Conti Cross Country 1.95 and put on a Conti Town and Country 2.125. I had a few choices for city tires. From a Conti Grand Prix in with a 559 bead seat in a about a 23-25c size to a Conti 1.5 slick to the town and country, heck i've even got some nice whitewall cruiser tires. I went with the T&C. Mostly because they were hanging there and had a tube in it already. I left the Conti Explorer pro on the front, well, because it still has the mold release knobs on there, and the other T&C was in the shed.
Grabbed a few shots at the first stop of the day.
just snapshots... felt good though on the bike.
The seat height and saddle angle tweak a while back have it pretty darn good for the leg interface. My shoulders and arms are telling me that the bar position is pretty different but the lower back is doing okay. Pretty good for some dude getting perilously close to 40 rotations on this damn planet (okay not 'that' close but still it feels pretty darn close and that's what counts right?).
Commuting is a magical moment. Heck even the powerslave Turk was ticking off a few important benee's.
so i forget what else was plaguing my thoughts on the ride in, but, it might come back to me, maybe, if not *shrug* like many other thoughts if they don't pester me enough they don't flow through the fingers.
heddwch
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7 comments:
shorter then driving?
man, you city slickers...pfft
Hey boss.. LOTS of folks are enslaved by the addiction to harvesting and compiling data about themselves, be it miles, hours ridden, average speed, max speed, average heart rate, kjoules, vertical feet climbed, number of squirrels decapitated on the bike path.. whatever. Why bird dog only powerslaves?
Joy! Blogger is now somehow unblocked here at work. I can comment without having to be at home.
oh sure I know they are, but they ain't nearly as loud or evangelical about their data collection as the powercrew can get. SOMEONE has to provide some balance, no?
Yin/Yang.
whatever you wanna call it.
I see my current purpose as being one to provide moral support and encouragement to those who have NOT gone out and caved to the allure of data to the demands of downloading and analyzing. If i can preserve just one person's love of pure just riding that a powertap can suck out of your time on the bike then I will keep "bird dogging" the "powerslaves"
:-D
and...
uh oh...
murat can comment...
;)
I understand, Mr Purity.. but being a Powertap user yourself, you're not exactly taking the "practice what you preach" approach..
More like "do as I say, not as I do".. Hmmm.. Does not compute..
Yeah I can comment from work now.. though i'm sure that every single keystroke and URL is being recorded and will be used against me later..
See the risks I take just to ingest your incessant baiting?
My purpose? To be more powerful. I can't think of a better tool to achieve that with, than a power meter. Frankly, I'd prefer it if everyone left the use of a PT to me and did their own training au naturel..
:P
I don't own a powertap now. I've used one in the past.
Have nothing close to it now.
Sold it.
Sold it?
Thought you had two!
My bad.
Sold it before Gloucester last year...
LONG time ago...
no... 2? you kidding?
so, there, now you are all caught up. I do NOT own a powertap right now.
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