no one ever said it would be this hard…
At the moment I’m somewhere between WTF and laughing. Seriously, who knew the act of pedaling could promote so many things - a shit ton of good with a drizzling of minor. Last week I was shedding electronic items as fast as Circuit City, this week, man, I may be the first person to do a nosewheelie all the way to Vancouver (where a back-wheel is no longer needed)
I’m hesistant to express concerns about this or that because I don’t want to it to overshadow the fact that I am committed as I’ve ever been, but at the same time it’s worth being honest about being a little stressed. Part of that is because I suffered a pretty nice crash yesterday – first one. Nothing to go on about (across a bridge), just one that left the bike with a nice crack in on the rim band of my rear wheel and me looking straight up (while standing), onthe side of the road for about 10 minutes… I imagine it was quite sight for the one car that past (I was just outside of the Blackwater State Park.) For those of you who have rear wheels and bikes that you pedal, it’s very much along the top (actually, it’s all the way around the spoke eyelet, which means at some point the eyelet in question will come out, so will the spoke, which is on the drive side (and I currently don’t have have a freewheel remover – preparation)…)
Even with all of this, I am still well within my average of about 70 miles per day. The heat and humidity is making it much more challenging, but that’s to be expected and I guess it part of the trade off of having a nice riding surface 99% of the time.
I gather there’s something in the rule book of Do what you want in life… that states you either do what you want and accept that you cannot control what happens, or you roll the bike into a ditch and go check your email at the local library.
Well, fortunately, the bike’s chained/locked outside for the moment, and there aren’t a lot of ditches around.
There is, though, a bike shop up the street, so fingers crossed.
j
