New bike! September 19, 2006
Posted by Aaron in : Play , trackbackHuzza! I have given my new bike a proper introduction to the road! Though I am happy to be starting a new job in about a month, one of the things I shall truely miss is the trails around here. I’ve roughly plotted out my route on the gmap pedometer, but it looks like it was a good 10 and a half miles. I found a cool little island covered with trails, sadly dusk was close enough I couldn’t explore more. I was peddling east at one point and turned a corner and glanced back the way I came… the sunset that was going on was so startlingly beautiful that in my haste to stop I very nearly went over the handlebars. I’ve not had good breaks in so long this could be interesting. I tried to drop in on practice with Jason’s band, but though I got the people’s dog barking, for the life of me I couldn’t get their attention (they were in the basement rocking out at that point). And though it got dark, I was ready. When I was buying the bike I had a small conversation with myself, “Aaron, you know sooner or later you’ll be riding in the dark.” “How do you know me so well?” “I’m not going to dignify that with a response, instead, lets get a tail-light.” “One that blinks?” “*sigh* yes, yes we can get one that blinks.” “Huzza!” And it does indeed do several variations of being on and off (besides be as bright as the sun at close range, my first action upon putting batteries was to turn it on while looking at it from about a foot). The ride back was quite chilly, I broke out gortex long johns to rescue my cold self when I got back. Why even as we speak my tummy has warmed up enough that I can feel it when I poke it. I shall sleep well tonight, though I’m a bit concerned about how well I’ll be able to sit or move tomorrow, oh well, it was a most excellent ride all the same.
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