your daily bicycle log

Does that apply to the entire state? My idea of California (I've never been there) is that it would be perfect for year-round cycling!

It is perfect for year-round cycling ... except during wildfire/smoke season.

I don't believe in New Year's resolutions but I'm making an exception for once - I'm gonna ride slower on the bike path to the park. Sorry, lady I almost ran over :/

(it's a mixed pedestrian/bike path)

Knowing how to rein it in and where is that next next level.

Yeah within city limits I'm taking it easy unless I'm on a dedicated bike path without crossing potential for pedestrians.

Weather's been too wet for commuting the past two weeks :-/
Fell from my bike on the last commute, such a silly accident - was cycling with a colleague when we had to cross an expressway. With no traffic in sight, we slowly started getting across and then bumped into one another after both thinking the other was going left rather and right and vice versa. Beside feeling embarrassed, nothing more than a scuffed knee and a torn bib....

Did a ride with mates for the first time in a long time this mornings ending up at my local coffee shop. Five minutes later the Melbourne cycling nobility roll in (James Huang from cycling tips, all of curve cycles, former Australian cyclocross champ Lisa Jacobs etc.). Suddenly makes me feel very fat.

Oh, and apparently Simon Gerrans who I totally didn't clock.

hey, you beat them to the coffeeshop

Cool and humid today, nobody out there. Stopped on my ride for coffee and a galette. Eavesdropped on two old guys talking on a bench. There is nothing better, to me, than two old guys on a bench talking. Heard one guy telling another how he got married when he was 21, to a 38yo woman. They were married for 42 years until she died of diabetes complications at 80.

Can you introduce me?

^^ that was in my Zing drafts, dunno what the context is.

Last few weeks have been cold and blustery. Today was nearly perfect, though, and I got out for 50 miles on a favorite route with some nice rollers. Just don’t ask me how long it took.

Bought a new GoPro last week. Here's yesterday's club run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBFdiTVjRIw

A month and a half ago, someone broke into my garage and stole two bikes. One bike was a new mt bike, and the other was the 20yo touring bike. That was the one that had me sad.

Well, wouldn't you know it, but they dumped the old bike (minus some parts) a block away. I found it that morning and had it fixed up.

Finally back from the shop, took it for a ride this morning. Still solid.

Two new tubes, two flats. Tyre was v old ao bought a new one. Just tried to put it on and got a pinch flat. Fuuuuck. The guy in the bike shop said don't use levers to put it back on but there was absolutely no way I could get it on otherwise. Think I have to accept I just can't change tubes :(

I had to use my bike today and still hadn't sorted the tyre, luckily had another wheel on my single speed that's up in the loft, it's not quick release though. Broke a spanner putting it on - that should mean it's tight, right? It seemed tight enough. Rode 4 miles no problem. On the way back - hmm, what's that rattling noise? Luckily I didn't quite find the answer to the question 'how far can you ride on a loose front wheel?', also lucky I was on a quiet canal not a busy road or I might not have heard it.

This all sounds familiar.

I am now passing competent at this stuff, though, practice makes perfect.

One of my former riding partners was killed mid-day yesterday on a popular bike route in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Everyone's really freaked out and angry and sad. He was well decorated on the track (multiple masters golds national and world levels but also outright USA record holder for flying 500mTT) but just a sweet, humble and nice guy who loved riding. If you ever rode around the GGP polo fields you were likely to see him. Just senseless and saddening.

aw shasta, i'm terribly sorry. i've not seen you in these parts for a long time, and given the hazardous world of cycling, i've thought of you in concern for your own welfare, even. so i am glad to hear from you-- but what terrible circumstances. stay safe and well.

same here - wish I wasn't hearing from you again because of such awful news.

Man we've both biked that stretch of road about a billion times.

https://i.imgur.com/6HvuILU.jpg

White was riding on the shoulder of Highway 119, known as the Diagonal, in Boulder on Saturday afternoon when he was hit by a 23-year-old woman driving a Toyota Matrix. The driver crossed from the right-hand lane onto the shoulder, striking White from behind before she crashed into a fence, according to an incident report from the Colorado State Patrol. White was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead. The car's driver was uninjured.

Top American cyclist Magnus White, 17, dies after being hit by a car
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191096086/cyclist-magnus-white-17-dies-accident-car-boulder-colorado

fucking diagonal. it's a graveyard.