Car-lite life

Not car free by any means, no. Soon to be going N+1 on the car and then hopefully N-1 shortly after to bring it back to status quo.

But that's different topic and one that recently sort of settled in and removed one of those unknowns I hate. As much as it pains me to say good bye to the TDI and esp that one the one that hauled around the winningest bike racer in history before I bought it, but hey. Bike racers are as hard on their cars as they are on their bikes and well, this particular year is rather rust prone. Soooo...  soon that anxiety source will be gone one way or another and we'll move on to different things for a spell.

But car-lite life means riding everywhere. Grocery shopping by bike can be a challenge. Sure I've loaded 2-300 pounds of logs in the trailer but never hauled that much weight more than a flat smooth mile or two. 10 miles of dragging even the 100 pound weight limit of the trailer up and down even the few hills between there and home is pretty exhausting.

Sunday's grocery run was limited. get what was needed for a few days.

Problem is, now the need for another run. Not problem per-say, sure I should have just overloaded and gotten everything then but well. I didn't. No big deal. Trailer hauling today.

Potentially a smaller load, but heavier load today. Need a few more essentials, two i should have gotten on Sunday but forgot, the others I deliberately left off because they are heavy.



The of course there's the beer option, High Spirits has Harpoon at an attractive deal, downside they're almost always sold out of cans. Hauling 12 glass bottles is louder and heavier. While cans may have a lining that isn't the best, they are much more efficient and i don't need the extra torque training. have had this discussion with the guys there a few times, esp when I have to ask if there are any 12 pack cans hiding in the back somewhere.

Trailer today - CX tomorrow.

Still sorting wheels out, musical wheels. I have a couple options to try out, more in an attempt to keep the road wheels intact for a few more weeks at least.

Riverpoint CX tomorrow. Def want to make a switch on the brakes, need to decide what size ring to put on the black blue, as it will likely run as SSCX and may as well just go single ring on it since i never use the 38. ever. Guess availablility will be the determining factor. Running out of time to order shit though aren't. Pushing it a bit.

Run Tubelss tomorrow or not? It may depend on if I break down and drive. Ride down and I might just run what I brung last week.

I'm feeling a bit remiss about not writing up the massive epic ride with JLSCX way back in June. But Also, i covered that ride in a few other places. Maybe I'll save that for a vacation day, or write up when I get laid off at the bike shop for the season. Or who knows. I'll find time I think. I hope.

But leading me to think about that is the potential to try and get a 200k in on Sunday. I am not really a big fan of long monster rides on the weekends, but hey it worked well enough last year. Not planning quite as long of a ride or a ride with that kind of time crunch. But am planning something new, different, because doing the same ride I know would be boring. or not, but the routes I know aren't getting me excited to ride, and I want to ride and I think I may have found a route, and it probably will mean I'm riding alone. Means I'll just go f'n slow, and take longer but still enjoy the day, but still conflicted it is a day on the weekend when I can't use a vacation day and still work at the shop on the weekend. But who knows, maybe it is a dumb traddition I've been doing, but I kind of like it. A lot. So will probably keep doing it. Even if it is alone.

Overall positive lately, more than usual. Of course part of me is wondering when it will end and the cloud will come back. Big hinge is what happens between now and Monday. Some of which I can control. Much I cannot. Ah life. so f'n insane.

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