Things will look much prettier in a few weeks, that is if we ever get a bit of rain. Green, such as even we get, is a bit late this year because of cold and drought.
Yes, I'm lucky -- we don't even have many mosquitos or flies or ticks, tho' mosquitos do come from near river at full summer twilight. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 8:50 AM RichS <rshannon6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick, > > Some nice dirt trails you have in your neighborhood. Thanks for the > pictures. I would agree on rewarding rides one can come up with close to > home. I'm seven miles from downtown Atlanta but there is a plethora of wide > neighborhood streets that offer rides that can combine paths and light > traffic. Example: one is a 21 mile loop with 1500 ft. of climbing. More > distance and elevation is always possible! > > Best, > Rich in ATL > > On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7:41:32 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Phone calls starting 7:30 this AM and continued for almost 5 hours, so I >> played hooky from resumes and took an afternoon ride on the newly upgraded >> Monocog. In fact, my ride was not mere crass pleasure, it had a serious, >> earnest purpose -- I had to find a way to get to Hertz without driving or >> using a car service -- must pick up rental van on Mon. >> >> I found a way to get to the shopping center, one of those horrible >> sprawls 1 mile N-S and 1/2 mile E-W, with hectares of parking off of a very >> heavily traveled 6 lane adjacent to another very heavily traveled 6 lane >> and to other semi-urban/sub-urban multi-lane traffic feeders. This involved >> back ways along acequia ditches and under said arterials, onto nice >> neighborhood tucked away against said 6-lane intersection, to strategic >> traffic light that lets me cross street on bike and jump to safety on >> sidewalk. >> >> No matter. I turned the excursion into a meandering detour on this early >> spring day, rain threatening, drought established, winds blowing. I took >> the photos in that part of the Rio Grande Valley State Park adjacent to my >> house, within 3 mile radius (park is perhaps 1/4 mile from my door). >> >> Again, early spring, clouds, rain falsely threatening, blustery, mid 70s; >> bosque just starting to turn green. River surprisingly full after months of >> 2' depths and sandbars; "they" apparently released a great deal of water >> upstream. >> >> Monocog continues to delight. 65" gear is just right for this riding: low >> enough that with 175 mm cranks and 70 mm tires I can stand and torque thru >> all but the deepest sand; high enough that with tailwind, as outbound >> today, or on pavement I'm not flailing despairingly to maintain a decent >> speed. >> >> Road BB7s replaced the very cheap indeed OEM Tektro disc calipers, and >> with the AX levers I get decent braking with careful adjustment of pads. >> *And* pads aren't even bedded in, *and* I forgot to use compressionless >> housing. Are BB7s excellent? No. What are they, then? They are perfectly >> adequate. Adequately easy to install and adjust, adequately strong with >> modest hand pressure; adequately easy to keep from rubbing; certainly >> better than any centerpull I've used, and I've used many (tho all bolt on). >> >> I really should have used non-aero levers, but the only n-a's I have have >> clamps that don't let you tightend down much beyond 23.8mm. You can torque >> down the Shimano 600 AX levers for a tight grip on 22.2 bars. >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- > 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/6c282693-0aa7-4889-8bda-fd56c631dcc8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6c282693-0aa7-4889-8bda-fd56c631dcc8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfguK_P43pd2aiM%3DrCMqLj_Wjv%2BrvO5sNSBHOa2v8sjLP5A%40mail.gmail.com.
