hair helmets on our heads
Oct bike log: 175 miles
Biked to work every day of work, with a couple days missing for travel and sick. The sick part also made me cancel out of a couple group rides, and another one because of rain. I made time for a couple fun rides around the South Side, though. One day of rain riding; a couple days of cold (30s) weather riding. Nothing extreme.
For bike upgrades, I decided that my helmet either needed new padding or needed to be replaced, so I went with the replace option. I visited the local Trek store because I liked one of their helmets that wasn't in the WSD category, and wanted to know if there was any difference in fit. No, the local employee said, it's just color scheme. I find that really annoying. But useful for my purposes, as I was able to get a blue and black helmet, completing the color scheme for the rest of my bike, instead of the purple/pink/turquoise ones in the WSD line. Sigh. I also redid my helmet braids with fresh yarn, as the old ones were getting kind of ratty. Then I added in a pair of cat ears I picked up recently from a LBS sale rack. I angsted briefly about spending a lot of money on bike accessories, then realized that a single maintenance visit for our car cost me more than my frivolous bike spending for the last ~6 months. And people say biking is a luxury hobby.
For Halloween I carved a very nice bike-o-lantern that I'm pretty proud of. I also managed to get in some minor maintenance during the slow trick-or-treating time, namely tightening up the fenders, replacing padding on the back fender so it stops rattling, and greasing the chain.
Only slightly biking related: Last week Xuth and I saw Pedal Punk (teaser video), a mostly-rolling-things-based circus show, that was really well done and enjoyable. We biked downtown for it, got dinner at Proper, and then had our server trick-or-treat at our house a week later and recognize us.
Biked to work every day of work, with a couple days missing for travel and sick. The sick part also made me cancel out of a couple group rides, and another one because of rain. I made time for a couple fun rides around the South Side, though. One day of rain riding; a couple days of cold (30s) weather riding. Nothing extreme.
For bike upgrades, I decided that my helmet either needed new padding or needed to be replaced, so I went with the replace option. I visited the local Trek store because I liked one of their helmets that wasn't in the WSD category, and wanted to know if there was any difference in fit. No, the local employee said, it's just color scheme. I find that really annoying. But useful for my purposes, as I was able to get a blue and black helmet, completing the color scheme for the rest of my bike, instead of the purple/pink/turquoise ones in the WSD line. Sigh. I also redid my helmet braids with fresh yarn, as the old ones were getting kind of ratty. Then I added in a pair of cat ears I picked up recently from a LBS sale rack. I angsted briefly about spending a lot of money on bike accessories, then realized that a single maintenance visit for our car cost me more than my frivolous bike spending for the last ~6 months. And people say biking is a luxury hobby.
For Halloween I carved a very nice bike-o-lantern that I'm pretty proud of. I also managed to get in some minor maintenance during the slow trick-or-treating time, namely tightening up the fenders, replacing padding on the back fender so it stops rattling, and greasing the chain.
Only slightly biking related: Last week Xuth and I saw Pedal Punk (teaser video), a mostly-rolling-things-based circus show, that was really well done and enjoyable. We biked downtown for it, got dinner at Proper, and then had our server trick-or-treat at our house a week later and recognize us.