cycling: stupid bike

Yesterday the chain fell off my bike again (it does this all the time) and today it’s clonking and chonking and clicking as I cycle. I know it’s a cheap bike, for Christ’s sake, but how hard is it for a cheap bike to do its damn job. I guess I’m bringing it back to the shop to see if they can figure it out, but this is really frustrating What’s even more frustrating is that most of the time the place behind a gate and under a roof isn’t…

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exercise: exploring the territory

In a fit of ambition I got on my bike this morning and went for an exploratory ride which, among other things, led me to discover that the sports centre where the swimming pool is is about a stone’s throw from the parking lot that had previously been my farthest-explored reach of the cycling/walking path. Granted, you would have to be exceptionally good at throwing stones, but still. I also discovered that despite what it looks like on the map, there actually IS a cycling/walking path all the way to…

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exercise: i GuEsS tHiS iS GoOd FoR mE

aPpArEnTLy ExErCiSe iS GoOd FoR mE oR SoMeThIng :p I did a ~3 mile bike ride yesterday morning. I’d have gone farther, except the path I took was flooded by the river and I wasn’t wearing the right gear to cycle through however far that went on. (more on this later) It was EXTREMELY BIZARRE, though, because between the sunrise in front of me, the resulting tree shadows, and my polarized sunglasses, at first glance it genuinely looked as if the path simply plummeted off a cliff into darkness. It’s…

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exercise: omg ded

Project Whup Dan: Dan is in no danger of being whupped. 😂 I did get back on the bike yesterday and to my surprise/relief it seems that a week OFF from cycling hadn’t been enough time for my sit bones to forget that I’d BEEN cycling, so I did a little zoom around the neighborhood yesterday to see if that would cause me significant Bike Butt today, with the intention of going on a slightly longer ride today if not. Again to my surprise, it was ‘if not’, so I…

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exercise: good news/bad news

Good news/bad news on the Project ‘Whup Dan’ front: Good news is, the bike shop got the gear shifts on my bike working properly so it now goes through the entire range of gears without dropping the chain, and also actually shifts IN to third, which it had never previously done. It’s a cheap bike and it’s the 3rd time I’ve brought it in to try to get this fixed, so I guess 3rd time is the charm. Bad news is, it took a week so I probably have to…

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