I don't think I will ever quite get over the sensation that bike shorts are a terribly naughty garment.

I'm getting quite behind on posting - I meant to write about the sauna party, which was two weeks ago now, and more recently the first training ride for a charity century I'm doing in May. Aack.

The things currently eating my brain are work, work, a speculative redesign of something that annoyed me in I.D., a rebuttal to a recent post on the ( Read more... )

I should probably do something useful with myself, or something, but curling up on the couch with a blanket, a teapot, and Simone de Beauvoir's biography is sounding like an excellent Friday night. Maybe I'll work on Stupid Web Toy later, or poke my head outside for coffee. It looks gloomy out there, and the bike ride home was cold. (And hazardous ( Read more... )

I'm having a much calmer day today. Things are working better. No browser conflicts.
Restfulness helps.

Thanks, everyone, for soothing my bitching and moaning in the meantime.

In other news, agate456 is tempting me with this - I think I'm going to join him for the 100-mile out of Portland. This, of course, means we need to train for it ( Read more... )

Today I did the Denny ride for the first time in, oh, four months.

Am now feeling a bit woozy and low blood pressure* and OH HEY LOOK GIRL SCOUT COOKIES.

* I have blood pressure that scares phlebotomists and makes them look at me funny. I was once 90/76 directly after riding up First Hill from Pioneer Square. I... don't know.

I will not post about the snow, or the frigid-looking sleety slush that's pissing down in LQA and which I rode through this morning, because gfish and garpu and seattle have been keeping up on the meteorological dispatches.

Instead I will admit that I didn't remember to set my alarm, so I got up at 6:45 instead of 5:15 this morning, but dymaxion still wanted to go, so we ( Read more... )

BIKE!

It is completely gorgeous. It is also compact - 650c wheels, not 700. So far so good with the pedals.

Photos after dinner, I think. Test rides tire a girl OUT.

So I went to that bike fitting appointment. He took two looks at the Fuji and went "Owww" and showed me the scar on his knee from surgery for a similar injury.

So.

Rodriguez Randonneur, sized to fit, midnight blue custom paint.

Picking it up in a month.

CANNOT WAIT.

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Before R+E, had lunch with fridaypeach at the new Blue Dog location. Nomnomnomnom ( Read more... )

I did a cursory check on eBay for 50cm Trek Pilots. Just today there's nothing - the smallest one is 52cm. I has a short.

There's this baby on SF Craigslist...

I've set up an eBay new-posting alert, though.
I've also set up an appointment with one Smiley for 2:30 Saturday at R+E.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure I should not buy a $1500 bike that will want another $1-200 worth of components to make it perfect. Right ( Read more... )