Spending a lot of time at the sharp end of the stick in my world, holding the knife to keep it sharpened on most days. Not the place decide on being change averse, we're specializing in it.
I've been riding my Rambouillet to work this week as I have adjusted my commuter for a guest we've added to our quaranteam. I grab rides where and when I can and have headed out for rides wearing whatever I had on in the moment than I had in the past. While the longer, more logistically detailed bike rides have been fewer, I believe I'm riding more miles and riding more frequently this spring but only have a cyclometer on my Rambouillet so there's no quantification. I signed up for Strava over the winter and so far have gotten more spam from them to justify their changes to fewer functions for free, most by subscription. Goofing around with that hasn't crossed my mind until I've been well along many rides. I delete the app when I remember. Riding is redemption. It's a departure from static part of life on a dynamic mode that gets your mind to participate. If you can ride with just the necessary attention, effort or sleep, you have a huge amount of bandwidth to let your mind flow through things that aren't at your job, your profession, your address, etc. A good bike outfitted for your uses really makes it possible. Some sights from this week: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CB7pdtVRzCGBPQtG9 The Doughboy. The weary but resolute guard of the entrance to the Lawrenceville neighborhood. I've ridden thirty miles since 4;30 am, it's predawn, rain starting to fall and I'm not prepared for that but neither did those who he memorializes. https://photos.app.goo.gl/yCpCn4fH18UbFihQ7 Yesterday morning I see this 12 barge raft heading up the Monongahela River from the Ohio River at a pretty good clip. They're empty, moving right along and I decide to see if I can keep up with it and possibly beat it to the Hot Metal Bridge several miles up river. https://photos.app.goo.gl/JvMjCP1rnCVpHFdv5 I go there first and waited for it to reach my vantage point. So far this year the rides haven't so much been defined by where the destination has been or the rare sights seen along the distant way. It's been a series of opportunities to savor more clearly against a backdrop from which I am distracting myself, within a nearer circle. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 12:24:24 PM UTC-4, Austin B. wrote: > > A great ride this morning in the Catoctin range above Frederick, MD. > Reached 1,772 feet of elevation at my highest--does that make it a mountain? > > I converted my SH to a poor man's 1x, removing the 50t chainring from a > crankset and getting shorter bolts to fasten the 34t by itself. No clutch > derailleur, no 1x chainring, and I made a DIY chain catcher out of an old > front derailleur with a stripped cable anchor. This was my first offroad > ride and I'm pleased that everything worked beautifully and did not drop a > chain once.I'll probably buy or 3D print a proper chain catcher. > > Contemplating a nostalgic feeling that music conjured up last night. Part > of me was aching to go back to a simpler, slower year of 1989 and thinking > of this during the ride left me feeling happy and content. I needed nothing > added or taken away. Music can have that effect. > > Total isolation at the top--so sights or sounds of humans--just the sounds > of nature. > > -Austin > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5b617c2f-3474-4f61-8301-981783f73687%40googlegroups.com.
