 |
| It was a perfect day for a ride, 80 degree's, low humidity and sunny skies. Unfortunately my bicycle didn't think so, I hadn't noticed that the chain had started to rust after sitting a week in the garage, with all the rain and humidity. The grinding noise that it was making as I rode, got me to the point that I finally said enough and headed home to take care of it. |
 |
| Freaking chip seal on Carpenter st, one of my favorite roads to ride. Ruined for at least six months. |
 |
| With all the thunder storms popping up in the club ride area, I decided to stay in the local area and skip the club ride. I rode to the Ten Mile River bike path and checked out the newest section that RIDOT just completed. It adds almost a mile to the existing path and brings it almost to the Massachusetts border. |
 |
| It was another scorcher today, but didn't seem as humid as last Sundays ride. Lots of great scenery on this ride, even the short loop I did. |
 |
| This is turf farm territory too. |
 |
| Today had all the makings of a great ride, low temps(77) and low humidity. Boy was I wrong, three of my favorite roads in the area, just got chip sealed. Why this town applies this coating to a road that was just repaved within the last year, blows my mind. |
 |
| Here's one of the roads with the nasty chip seal applied. Now it will take at least six months before it's rideable again. |
 |
| Boy was it another scorcher today. I started my ride at 9:30 and it was already 87 out, when I finished it was 93 out. I was thinking of doing the 30 mile loop, but after having to go into my granny gears three times in the first seven miles, I knew 25 was the loop for me. |
 |
| It's been almost five weeks since I've rode my bike,pretty lame huh? Between family issues, vacation and just feeling like a lazy slug, I've had no ambition to ride. Well it's time to get back in the saddle and I started with today's ride. Of course you know my legs felt like crap but as the ride went on, I did start to feel better. |
