And our last question of the week:
Q8. What did you see this week? Share a photo if you'd like. Cycling related or not is fine. Tell us about it!
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A8. The vernal ponds are filling up with water after a week of rain. Today was a nice day for a bike ride at Ft Ord National Monument. It was finally warmer today.
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@ascentale @bikenite A8 #BikeNite got some ma-po tofu at the local chinese place, because my mouth was tender from a root canal earlier that day. They had some handy bike parking.
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@dr2chase @ascentale @bikenite We had some mabodofu (Japanese pronunciation) last night. Not what I would recommend for oral surgery recovery!
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#BikeNite A8:
Early in the week we were in "Fool's Spring" and so I was able to take some longer road bicycle rides, so I was able to see the nearby countryside and small towns. On Sunday I was in the small town of Eyota Minnesota which has a large grain elevator.
(We are now in Second Winter.)
@ascentale @bikenite A8. As I was about to step out the door onto our porch earlier this week, this snow came crashing off the roof with a long, loud, roaring sound! Spring is coming…
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I saw a lot of rain, partially sleet this week and a tiny bit of black ice this week. Hence I was often cycling with my fully reflective #Rainlegs on. Here I parked my #Brompton #GLine in the back of a conference room and put the Rainlegs over its saddle for drying.
A8. A lot of snow. Most all at once since we moved here.
@ascentale @bikenite A8: This was TAX WEEK for me, but I did turn out (by bike, of course) for the first day of 2 Line trains on 1 Line _tracks_, which is an incredibly important train and bike infrastructure upgrade here because our trains are _also_ bike carriers and now there are twice as many trains running over the majority of the system. (Every car of every train has two bike areas, all of which take multiple bikes.)
Next month they start crossing the lake. Rides are already planned.
But also Berm Peak dropped a really good video on "easy" bike repairs that are actually "difficult" except they actually _aren't_ difficult once you know what you need to know. I definitely recommend it:
'Easy' Bike Repairs That Are Actually Hard
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@moira @ascentale @bikenite The pedal explanation annoyed me. IMO simpler to say that if turning a pedal pulls the chain tight you're tightening the pedal.
But I'm aware of a range of opinions about the one true way to know so I merely offer that as a suggestion.
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@moz @moira @ascentale @bikenite With you on this. I'm right-left dyslexic, and "turn it right" doesn't mean a thing to me for an object that's circular. But I learned the right-hand rule in physics and that works for threads: curl your fingers and extend your thumb. Turning the screw in the direction of your fingers moves the screw in the direction of your thumb.
Right hand for right-handed threads, left hand for the rest.
Pure comedy gold to see me in the Workshop in the Sky with my son and we're both using this rule and we're both using the wrong hand ...
@moira @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8 follow-up: That Berm Peak video is also on my "to watch" list.
@ascentale @bikenite A8 continuance: The funniest part of this video was watching him demonstrate the exact mistake I made the... second? time I replaced a chain. I figured it out with the bike still on the stand, but it was still a "...goddammit" moment. And you'll see it in the video. :D
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I've done that twice with chains and not figured it out until I was on the road.
Same route both times, actually, so it's the route that's cursed.
@ascentale @bikenite A8: I’ve taken to calling it frozen water because ICE now has a completely different connotation….
anyhoo—you can see what the river’s been up to
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