Else? [status, bicycling, food]
Feb. 7th, 2026 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeister1. I got more amazing things in the mail this week!
threemeninaboat sends such cool things in the mail. So does the organizer of the annual Coffeeneuring Challenge. <3
2. We got another 1.5 inches of snow overnight. You might think that would be trivial after the foot and change we got 2 weeks ago, but you'd be wrong, in large part because it still takes time for people to come along and clear the snow after it falls (and blows around in violent gusts, this time). Making it over to the fitness center for rowing practice was an...adventure. More fishtailing than I like (I really don't like fishtailing at all). The worst is trying to bike across snow where people driving have already compacted it. Slippery stuff.
By the time I went to the grocery store, the major roads were plowed, at least. But don't ever expect that bike lanes will get plowed in the winter in a place like Albany, New York, as if to suggest bicycles are a legitimate transit mode. No, in the wintertime, bike lanes are converted to car parking spots, because the cars can no longer park near the curb, because the parked cars have blocked the snow-clearing equipment and so the space at the curb is full of snow.
So you can see, I'm a deep believer in the value of bike lanes.
Not that I enjoy having to play chicken in traffic.
Not even the grocery co-op had bothered to shovel out the bike parking racks. Sigh.
So by the time I was home from it all, Frodo was coated in a heavy layer of Slop.
I rinsed it all off, and hopefully enough of the rinse water will drip/sublimate off that Frodo will be rideable by Monday morning. If not, I'll have to switch over to Princess TinyBike for a while.
I did spend an extra 15 minutes this morning with my avalanche shovel, digging out and widening a particular neglected crosswalk downtown. That's the best I can do, folks.
3. I will console myself with freshly-baked lemon rhubarb buttermilk bundt cake.
Fin.
threemeninaboat sends such cool things in the mail. So does the organizer of the annual Coffeeneuring Challenge. <32. We got another 1.5 inches of snow overnight. You might think that would be trivial after the foot and change we got 2 weeks ago, but you'd be wrong, in large part because it still takes time for people to come along and clear the snow after it falls (and blows around in violent gusts, this time). Making it over to the fitness center for rowing practice was an...adventure. More fishtailing than I like (I really don't like fishtailing at all). The worst is trying to bike across snow where people driving have already compacted it. Slippery stuff.
By the time I went to the grocery store, the major roads were plowed, at least. But don't ever expect that bike lanes will get plowed in the winter in a place like Albany, New York, as if to suggest bicycles are a legitimate transit mode. No, in the wintertime, bike lanes are converted to car parking spots, because the cars can no longer park near the curb, because the parked cars have blocked the snow-clearing equipment and so the space at the curb is full of snow.
So you can see, I'm a deep believer in the value of bike lanes.
Not that I enjoy having to play chicken in traffic.
Not even the grocery co-op had bothered to shovel out the bike parking racks. Sigh.
So by the time I was home from it all, Frodo was coated in a heavy layer of Slop.
I rinsed it all off, and hopefully enough of the rinse water will drip/sublimate off that Frodo will be rideable by Monday morning. If not, I'll have to switch over to Princess TinyBike for a while.
I did spend an extra 15 minutes this morning with my avalanche shovel, digging out and widening a particular neglected crosswalk downtown. That's the best I can do, folks.
3. I will console myself with freshly-baked lemon rhubarb buttermilk bundt cake.
Fin.
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Date: 2026-02-07 11:18 pm (UTC)I can’t grok if you have studs, but my manager that ebikes year round to work swears by them. I’m about 100nm north of Maine for calibration.
I used to drop my air pressure on my tires, but I suspect you already know that trick. Snow is pretty fickle on ground psi in general; and I used to use my hybrid with 700c x 32mm tires in every conceivable conditions. I side eye fat bikes 🤣
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Date: 2026-02-08 12:24 am (UTC)I think I just need to figure out a winter tricycle. You know, like this.
:^D
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