when we ride we ride
Nov bike log: 200
Nov was a month minus four work days of riding. I got in a few longer rides on some nice weather days, once up to Riverview Park, once wandering around Duck Hollow and then across to the trails and around, and once with Flock to downtown for Light Up Night, where I by chance caught up with a small Major Taylor contingent and rode with them for a bit.
Now that daylight saving has ended and half of my riding every day is in the dark, I'm getting a lot of use out of my wheel lights, and a lot of attention. On one hand, it's fun to get so many compliments yelled at me (counted up to a dozen on light up night); on the other hand, I wish more bikes lit up so that mine weren't so unique.
For new gear: I picked up a pair of Endura Strike II gloves, which are not only flexible, waterproof, cold weather gloves, but they fit me super well and are very comfortable. They seem to work for cold about as well as my other cold gloves, but are less bulky. My first ride with them I was disappointed, as it was supposedly 28F out and I still ended up at work with frozen fingers, but then I checked teh intarnets and it said windchill was more like 12F. The next day, also reading 28F, I was reasonably comfortable. So maybe they aren't awesome with wind, but they should work well under my BarMitts. I tried them out in rain yesterday, and although the gloves got wet (and felt damp externally 8 hours later) my hands definitely stayed dry. So that's good.
Nov was a month minus four work days of riding. I got in a few longer rides on some nice weather days, once up to Riverview Park, once wandering around Duck Hollow and then across to the trails and around, and once with Flock to downtown for Light Up Night, where I by chance caught up with a small Major Taylor contingent and rode with them for a bit.
Now that daylight saving has ended and half of my riding every day is in the dark, I'm getting a lot of use out of my wheel lights, and a lot of attention. On one hand, it's fun to get so many compliments yelled at me (counted up to a dozen on light up night); on the other hand, I wish more bikes lit up so that mine weren't so unique.
For new gear: I picked up a pair of Endura Strike II gloves, which are not only flexible, waterproof, cold weather gloves, but they fit me super well and are very comfortable. They seem to work for cold about as well as my other cold gloves, but are less bulky. My first ride with them I was disappointed, as it was supposedly 28F out and I still ended up at work with frozen fingers, but then I checked teh intarnets and it said windchill was more like 12F. The next day, also reading 28F, I was reasonably comfortable. So maybe they aren't awesome with wind, but they should work well under my BarMitts. I tried them out in rain yesterday, and although the gloves got wet (and felt damp externally 8 hours later) my hands definitely stayed dry. So that's good.