I rode today. Did you?
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Permalink Reply by JeffB on
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It was a nice ride despite the rain. It was light and the temps were moderate. I was surprised to see only two other bikes on the LFP from Wilson to Museum Campus. And no other bikes in my building's bike room. It wasn't that bad.
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Permalink Reply by grayn8 on
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TK, I agree. Albeit Cermac is not really southside. I got slashed in the face a few months ago and had my entire face swell up. Couldn't even open my eyes.
I rode but took a couple of prolonged stops under the Ogden western train bridge and such.
Adam - having relatively recently slipped a disc and gone through rehab, the panniers did the trick - however riding in the rain and turning my head to look out for traffic exacerbates it. I got back out to early on the bike and should have listened to PT/md. Not saying gonna be your case since I'm a broken fuddie duddie, but a word of self regret.
T.K. 6.5 mi said:I question this. The ride this morning was mostly refreshing, except for random horrible stenches here and there (might be because of my southside, industrial-heavy, route). I have this growing suspicion that riding through a puddle in the city and splashing the water onto myself subtracts a few days off of my life each time. Something equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. The problem is that it is so much fun!
Hopefully it wont happen too much longer, full SKS Chromoplastic fenders are being installed on my commuter this week. :)
John Wilson 6.0 said:It's just water.
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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on
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Yeah, hopefully it's not too bad and I'll be back riding next week. I feel about 90% today, but don't want to push my luck quite yet. I'm pretty sure I hurt myself twisting around while riding, trying to turn on my light that was attached to my backpack.
grayn8 (5.3 - 36) said:
Adam - having relatively recently slipped a disc and gone through rehab, the panniers did the trick - however riding in the rain and turning my head to look out for traffic exacerbates it. I got back out to early on the bike and should have listened to PT/md. Not saying gonna be your case since I'm a broken fuddie duddie, but a word of self regret.
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Permalink Reply by John Wilson 6.0 on
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I was speaking of the stuff falling from the sky. As far as what you ride through...YMMV.
T.K. 6.5 mi said:I question this. The ride this morning was mostly refreshing, except for random horrible stenches here and there (might be because of my southside, industrial-heavy, route). I have this growing suspicion that riding through a puddle in the city and splashing the water onto myself subtracts a few days off of my life each time. Something equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. The problem is that it is so much fun!
Hopefully it wont happen too much longer, full SKS Chromoplastic fenders are being installed on my commuter this week. :)
John Wilson 6.0 said:It's just water.
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Permalink Reply by Rich Evans on
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Problem I have with puddles is that you never know what they're hiding. Got most of my flats riding through them.
grayn8 (5.3 - 36) said:TK, I agree. Albeit Cermac is not really southside. I got slashed in the face a few months ago and had my entire face swell up. Couldn't even open my eyes.
I rode but took a couple of prolonged stops under the Ogden western train bridge and such.
Adam - having relatively recently slipped a disc and gone through rehab, the panniers did the trick - however riding in the rain and turning my head to look out for traffic exacerbates it. I got back out to early on the bike and should have listened to PT/md. Not saying gonna be your case since I'm a broken fuddie duddie, but a word of self regret.
T.K. 6.5 mi said:I question this. The ride this morning was mostly refreshing, except for random horrible stenches here and there (might be because of my southside, industrial-heavy, route). I have this growing suspicion that riding through a puddle in the city and splashing the water onto myself subtracts a few days off of my life each time. Something equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. The problem is that it is so much fun!
Hopefully it wont happen too much longer, full SKS Chromoplastic fenders are being installed on my commuter this week. :)
John Wilson 6.0 said:It's just water.
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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on
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someone remind me why I decided not to ride today?!? what should have taken me 30 minutes to bike took 50 in a cab and $25 :(( And now I have to navigate around the city via public transit instead of a 10 minute bike ride.
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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on
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Nothing an MP3 player and some decent noise-isolating earbuds can't salvage.
Julie Hochstadter said:someone remind me why I decided not to ride today?!? what should have taken me 30 minutes to bike took 50 in a cab and $25 :(( And now I have to navigate around the city via public transit instead of a 10 minute bike ride.
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What was short, the trail or the gal? :-)
Morgan 6 mi said:Thanks to the gal on corner that gave me the direction to the trail (very, very short but helpful.)
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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on
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Welcome back Mr. Winter, you sorry @(#*&!
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BEST WORKOUT EVER!
Today's wind even had some lighter weight cars on the 18th street bridge moving laterally. Going north on western up to Ogden with 60# in the panniers was a tabata fartlek quad destroyer ragamuffin!
in it to win it 8.0 mi said:Welcome back Mr. Winter, you sorry @(#*&!
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