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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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Slop..
The weather forecast was calling for a chance of rain late today, so I took my road bike with clip-on fenders this morning. What I wasn’t expecting, was a sudden cloudburst about 10 minutes into my ride. It wasn’t much rain, but it was enough to wet the roads and make the rest of my…
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Faster with Fenders?
Today I took my first ride with Planet Bike “SpeedEZ” clip-on fenders. It took me about 1/2 hour to put them on for the first time, and most of that was spent adjusting the struts. Now that the struts are properly adjusted, it should be pretty quick to put them on and take them off.…
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This morning’s ride
Being that this may be my last ride for a week or so, considering the weather forecast, I decided I’d depart from February tradition and try to do a longer morning ride. I took the fixed-gear and rode out to the park entrance at Ilchester Rd, but the Grist Mill Trail was still too snow-covered…
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Fenders on a Road Bike, Part 2
This is part 2 of my story about how I put fenders on my road bike. Read about my motivation for doing this in the first installment. There are a couple types of fenders made for road bikes. “Full” fenders cover the back wheel all the way down to the bottom bracket, and the…
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Fenders on a Road Bike, Part 1
I’ve been an occasional bike commuter for a little over three years. My commuter bike is a 2001 Giant OCR-1, a road bike with an aluminum frame and a carbon fork. Back in the big 1980s, I spent my teen years delivering newspapers, and went through a seemingly-endless string of cheap 10-speed beater bikes. I…