Comfort in the rain

It was raining lightly when I biked home last night.

It felt so GOOD to be biking in the rain.

This is because it was actually warm enough to be raining instead of snowing. The cold weather this winter has been hard on my body. I wound up with chilblains this week from a day when I got caught out with gloves that just weren't quite warm enough.

Tonight and tomorrow night, the temperature will drop again overnight, but daytime temps will still be at least a little bit above freezing.

Today is nonstop from now until after 5 pm. Time to get ready.

From the neverending Annals of Bike Maintenance

Next Monday I'm going to talk about bike fit with my bicycling students, so I thought it would be helpful to bring in Froinlavin and Princess TinyBike so they can see a wider range of bike styles.

I think possibly about 2 years have passed since I last rode Froinlavin - the poor bike has been sitting in the basement, gathering dust and more. Cold, damp environments aren't ideal for bicycles; there's a lot of rust that I need to clean up. But this is also a great time to figure out what Froinlavin needs to be seaworthy again, well before I plan to set out on any longer rides.

I put Froinlavin and TinyBike in the trailer, and rode all 3 bikes to work:


I'll work on getting air in tires either on Sunday or Monday.