On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 1:51:11 AM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 10:57:38 PM UTC+1, James wrote:
On 1/4/20 10:11 am, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious
reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and
windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at
a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the
right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk
over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over
a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big
white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes.
some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25
km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


I rode around a loop from home of nearly 50km, that included probably
20km of gravel road. I rode my gravel bike but left my "rough road"
wheels on instead of swapping to the "off road" wheels that sport wider
more grippy tyres. That was a mistake. I had to walk up a couple of
short steep sections where I just couldn't find enough traction and
steering at low speed to maintain balance. There were also some very
wicked corrugations that made some corners a pretty wild ride.

But alas, no mountain lions, only wallabies, birds and a couple of cows..
No broken bike. No chain repairs with rocks and nails, etc. My
plastic bidon cages (now Lezyne brand because they seem to hold my new
bidons in better) didn't bust & my B&M headlight and SP dynamo hub is
fine and dandy also.

I even found time to stop a take a couple of photos and later attached
them to my Strava account for that ride.

--
JS

However much the health authorities are paying you to keep would-be tours to Australia at home, the Tourist Board will pay you more. Just thought I'd mention it. -- AJ

Today I again did my local ride. I am stuck doing a local loop since there are no longer any coffee shops open for a mid-ride refreshment. 36 km without stopping in the cold and the headwind wasn't as bad as it's been. Not calm by any means but not so cutting that it blows right through my windproof jacket.

Average speed 14.9 mph and the normal amount of stops at stop lights along the way and I didn't feel like I was pushing it though I did get tired as hell near the end so perhaps I was.

Hardly any people out even though the bright sun was out. It was simply 50 degrees at the warmest part of the day. That probably sounds like a full summer flush to you in Ireland.