Cycling in and around Union County, NC
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Join the Coastal Cyclists for the After the Bridge Run Ride. Leave the running shoes behind and bring out your bike. Ride from Daniel Island into beautiful Charleston and Berkeley Counties.
100 mile ride leaves at 8am 73 and 30 mile ride leaves at 830am. This is a flat ride with plenty of rest stops and SAG support.
There are many people in this world that fuss over every minute detail on their bicycles. They care about this angle or that angle. They care about whether or not the wheel is 1 mm out of true or 1 mm out of round. Are the tires filled precisely to 110 psi front 115 psi rear.
It’s raining and you really wanted to go out on a ride. At the same time you really dread having to get all bundled up put rain gear on and going out in the cold windy rain eventually getting soaked anyway. So how do you spend your time?
Ok, on the way home from the airport I stopped by the Pineville REI and picked up my new Garmin Edge 705.
There are a few things you notice right off the bat. When you open the box the first thing you notice is just how big the unit is. Almost alarming in size, until you remove it from the box and actually hold it in your hands. Then all you really notice is the width of the unit more than the length.
Nicole is healing well. She will also be sporting a new helmet and glasses as the old helmet cracked in the fall and here glasses suffered a huge scratch on the left lens. She told me yesterday that she would have finished the ride under her own power if she had not tweaked the front wheel and flatted. She is a lot stronger person than she lets on.
Here is a very inexpensive tip to improve your cyclocomputers ability to sense speed and/or cadence. It is a fact that most cyclocomputers come with the cheapest magnets available. The are usually housed in some awfully designed package that either bites into the object it it mounted to (usually a spoke) or there are unsightly zip ties all over your beautiful bike.
Nicole and I decided it would be a good day to leave the tandem home and ride single bikes. Let me say first, that Nicole is ok and went to school this morning without any fuss, more details later.
It was an amazing turnout for the Bee Team rides. There must have been 40-45 riders there. The normal group was split in two and left about 5 minutes apart. The beginner group left after that.
Friday, Jan 9
Fair
Currently: 49˚ F
Feels Like: 47˚ F
Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 34˚
Tonight: 34˚
Sunset: 5:29 PM
Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Saturday, Jan 10
Hi: 59˚, Lo: 43˚
Sunday, Jan 11
Hi: 52˚, Lo: 30˚
weather feed courtesy of weather.com - thanks!
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