Procrastination
Nov. 25th, 2005 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI'm generally a great believer in the awesome power of procrastination. But I overdid it this time.
I figured I'd wait until snowfall to mount my studded tires on my commuter bike. Unfortunately, on Wednesday we got a lot of snowfall, going from totally dry to a fair amount of accumulation by afternoon. I was a bit concerned, but I had a backup plan of mostly gravel roads all the way home.
Turned out that it wasn't a problem on the travelled streets; riding in the right-hand tire track where I usually do anyway, I was on pavement. And for 9 of my 10 mile journey, no problem. Then I popped over a hill near home, and realized I had a pretty greasy spot coming up, at the bottom of the hill, on the turn onto pavement into our subdivision. I decided to follow the usual advice for slippery surfaces, and use my rear brakes a little more. The instant I touched the rear brake, the bike and I parted company. I suspect I'd have a nice bruise on my left hip, if I ever bruised. It was uncomfortable to sleep on the first day.
But that's the great thing about falling on snow/ice. You fall, you slide to a stop, get up and keep going. No big deal.
Yes, the studded tires are mounted and ready to go now. They're great, I can ride on stuff too slippery to stand on, I didn't fall once with them on last year, I put 650 miles on them.
Now that snow's here, I hope we get enough to go out and have fun in it. It bites when we just have enough to make the roads suck, but not enough to go sledding.
Odometer GUESS: 3600
I figured I'd wait until snowfall to mount my studded tires on my commuter bike. Unfortunately, on Wednesday we got a lot of snowfall, going from totally dry to a fair amount of accumulation by afternoon. I was a bit concerned, but I had a backup plan of mostly gravel roads all the way home.
Turned out that it wasn't a problem on the travelled streets; riding in the right-hand tire track where I usually do anyway, I was on pavement. And for 9 of my 10 mile journey, no problem. Then I popped over a hill near home, and realized I had a pretty greasy spot coming up, at the bottom of the hill, on the turn onto pavement into our subdivision. I decided to follow the usual advice for slippery surfaces, and use my rear brakes a little more. The instant I touched the rear brake, the bike and I parted company. I suspect I'd have a nice bruise on my left hip, if I ever bruised. It was uncomfortable to sleep on the first day.
But that's the great thing about falling on snow/ice. You fall, you slide to a stop, get up and keep going. No big deal.
Yes, the studded tires are mounted and ready to go now. They're great, I can ride on stuff too slippery to stand on, I didn't fall once with them on last year, I put 650 miles on them.
Now that snow's here, I hope we get enough to go out and have fun in it. It bites when we just have enough to make the roads suck, but not enough to go sledding.
Odometer GUESS: 3600
