I had taken today off to get our cabinets installed and have some new fence installed in the back yard. I got a call on Wednesday saying that the cabinets would be late coming in and that they needed to install it on Saturday. Great. Too bad I had scheduled the fence work, else I could have had one of the most beautiful days all to myself.
Alex and I had planned on riding on Wednesday, only to find out that one of the worst storms to hit our area planned on coming in early. I metioned that I was going to be off Friday as well and we planned on going riding up at the Suncoast trail because Flatwoods would have been underwater (it always is in places during the summer).
So we met up at around 3:30, I decided not to bother with the ipod tracking today and soley go by the bike computer. Unfortunately, this would be the first of many little grrr moments during our ride. We got rolling only to see my speed was not registering. I look down and see that my speed sensor had slid down the spokes. I readjusted it a bit, and speed was registering...but now it was rubbing on the staps that hold the sensor to the bike frame. At this point I moved it out of the way, but it wasn't close enough to register speed. I finally said the hell with it so we could get on our way.
The weather today was spectacular, 80F, slight north wind - perfectly blue skies. We rode up about 7 miles and Alex asked if he could swap bikes so he could decide if there really was a difference over the other bike. Of course he immediately noticed the difference. We got about a mile down the road and then his bike started to feel wobbly, I looked down - the tire had flatted out. This is the second time this had happened to him since we had been riding out there. I flipped it over and changed the tire.
We continued to head up to 52 and then turned around. At that point we put a little more air in his rear tire and continued on. All in all it was a good ride, we did approximately 20 miles give or take 1/2 mile.
Since the speed sensor and all were not working quite right, I dont have the specs today...
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