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Getting ready now, changed out the batteries in my blinkers on the winter bike. A old vistalite, the three diode first version with a amber lens.This is mounted on the back of my rack. The law says red but I’ve got other red reflectors to be legal and amber is more see-able. A red cateye five diode sticks out at axle level about six inches on the left rear. I also wear a flashing reflective leg band below my left knee.
The front lamps are a serfas five diode headlight and a cygolite dual beam. the cygolite is just two six watters but give a long run time and a pretty good pattern. The serfas I’ve got more at windshield level, it’s really a white bright “be seen” light.
The bike s tubes are wrapped in reflective tape, red on the rack and rear fender,yellow/orange/red on the main tubes and yellow on the forks with a silver front reflector on the left fork.
This thing isn’t pretty but is pretty bright.
Stitches and bandage is off my hand so I can ride with a glove again, looking forward to that.
Oh well, now I’m committed.
leostone doesn't have anything on their life list yet…
Sliced my right hand at work on a really nice’n’nasty piece of sheet metal. Seven stitches in the pinky.The rest of the hand was just bandages and tape wounds. Kind of interesting really, thinking of all the aerobic exercise I do, I saw the meat inside did look more like free range beef than veal, one of my last thoughts before I went into shock.
That was almost three weeks ago, had to drive, had to support the poor oil companies,watched my hard won fitness decline into jelly muscle.
Finally got to ride last Monday. Had all the power and grace of a slighty overweight warthog, but felt so good to be self propelled again. Rode the winter bike (granny chainring,sissyboy) for two days then had the Ti bike out today. Geeze, I’ve got some fittness to make up, and now Steve Pool says rain. Oh well, could of been worse, I did manage to miss the tendons.(Well other than THAT, how’d you like the car ride, Mrs Kennedy?)
So we begin again another time of Bicycle Through The Winter.
gears to you….leo
ps, who ever put the picture of yours truly up, thanks Jim, you did get my best side.leo
It’s the 21 of March.Life renewed, leaves burst forth, flowers bloom, the days warm and lengthen. It’s over, another winter, another step closer to the end of my days, but another summer to exult.
GET OFF THE CHESTERFIELD (couch) AND RIDE YOUR STINKING BIKE , EH!!!!THIS WINTER IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!
