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Today’s chilly ride
It’s that time of year where I post about my cold-weather bike rides. This morning was my coldest ride of the season (thus far) so I’m just sharing a few quick stats and notes. Time of day: 7:10am – 8:00am Temperature: (average) 7°F Wind chill: (average) -6°F Conditions: partly cloudy Distance ridden: 7.75 miles Bike:…
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Frigid-er (sort of)
Today was my second really, really cold bike ride this week. Conditions today were a little different from Wednesday. The air temperature was a steady 10°F, slightly warmer than Wednesday. The real story was the wind, which was around 13mph when I left, and 17mph when I arrived, with gusts up around 25mph. The wind…
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Frigid
My bike ride to work this morning was officially my coldest ever. I left home at 7:00am, rode approximately 12 miles (my phone battery died about 9 miles in, so I don’t have the exact figure), and arrived at work a little after 8. Official air temperature at BWI was 7°F at 6:54, and at…
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Random Biking Notes
It’s been a while since I’ve been inspired to write anything here, but I wanted to sneak a post in for April 2013, preserve my streak of blogging at least once a month. Twitter is largely to blame for my lack of blogging, as with my current schedule, it’s much easier to fire off a…
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Riding in 2013 – Another warm winter so far
So it’s 2013, and I’m still riding. A lot has changed with my riding routine this year. For starters, I’m no longer recording ride stats in a spreadsheet. I am using RunKeeper instead, and it’s been a great time saver. I still plan to keep track of mileage for each of my bikes separately, though,…
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2012 in review
I ended up 2012 with around 155-160 rides (I got lazy about recording my rides at the end of the year, so I don’t have an exact number). I may stop keeping track of individual rides in 2013 because I’m not getting much out of it any more — I’ll continue to track mileage, mainly…
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That time of year again..
We’re now halfway through November, so I’m once again riding home at dusk. I leave UMBC at 5:00 and get home around 5:45. By Thanksgiving, the sunset will be pushing back towards 4:45. At our latitude/longitude, the earliest sunset is about 4:44pm and usually falls around December 9-10. So the next few weeks will be…
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October Post
I needed to get a blog post in for October, to keep my streak alive: I have managed to write at least one blog entry each month since late 2009. We just survived Hurricane Sandy, which was reportedly the largest storm ever to strike north of Cape Hatteras, and also it’s been quite some time…
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Chain Joinery – Fixing stiff links
I’m still working on getting everything working smoothly with my old ’93 Specialized Rockhopper, after replacing the chain, cassette, front cranks and sprockets. To compensate for larger chainrings, I ended up having to add a couple of links to my chain, and I thought I’d pass on a tip. I have always found it frustrating…
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Drive Train
We’re now about midway through September. The first week of September featured weather similar to the inside of a gym locker room. This past week, the weather has been beautiful. We’ll see what the rest of the month holds. I haven’t ridden my mountain bike since I broke my chain a few weeks back. I…