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Bike log, Jan 2017: 140 miles
I started off the new year by finally making the Icycle Bicycle ride with the Western PA Wheelmen group on Jan 1, as it was nice and sunny and not snowy. About 100 cyclists showed, all in tights and neon, mostly people I didn't know. It was a fairly fast-paced ride, but it was also only about a 15 mile ride, and on mostly flats, so I didn't have too much trouble keeping in a group (although I'd dropped to a later group by the end).
Then the rest of the month was just basic commuting, with a week off to drive up to Boston for a convention. There was a lot of cold and wet riding, which was not terribly pleasant for either me or the bike, although at least I have the gear to make it only mildly annoying instead of really dreadful. One ride home left enough snow packed up in my fenders that getting into work the next morning was particularly difficult. I made good use of the large exhaust pipe near the bike racks for drying it off that day.
I ended the month at a women's winter bike workshop, where I learned that I was not lubing my chain anywhere near as often or as thoroughly as I should be doing for the weather I'm riding in. Lucky for me, I was the only one who rode my bike to the workshop, so I got to have my bike used as the demo bike, and got a freshly lubed chain out of the night. More than worth the cost of admission.
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I started off the new year by finally making the Icycle Bicycle ride with the Western PA Wheelmen group on Jan 1, as it was nice and sunny and not snowy. About 100 cyclists showed, all in tights and neon, mostly people I didn't know. It was a fairly fast-paced ride, but it was also only about a 15 mile ride, and on mostly flats, so I didn't have too much trouble keeping in a group (although I'd dropped to a later group by the end).
Then the rest of the month was just basic commuting, with a week off to drive up to Boston for a convention. There was a lot of cold and wet riding, which was not terribly pleasant for either me or the bike, although at least I have the gear to make it only mildly annoying instead of really dreadful. One ride home left enough snow packed up in my fenders that getting into work the next morning was particularly difficult. I made good use of the large exhaust pipe near the bike racks for drying it off that day.
I ended the month at a women's winter bike workshop, where I learned that I was not lubing my chain anywhere near as often or as thoroughly as I should be doing for the weather I'm riding in. Lucky for me, I was the only one who rode my bike to the workshop, so I got to have my bike used as the demo bike, and got a freshly lubed chain out of the night. More than worth the cost of admission.
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