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Aug. 28th, 2005 04:24 pmi successfully slept in until noon today!
since my feet are still feeling a bit too battered from dancing to cajole them into running, i took the bike out for a spin this afternoon... i look like a super-dork in my helmet, and there's not that far to go in any direction before i run into scary traffic, but whizzing around the neighborhood and little greenway in walker springs park made me feel like a little kid again. well, a real chicken of a little kid, since i kept hitting the brakes every time a downhill and a curve happened together... (puts me in real awe of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mjeanette and mbarronj. i mean, geesh, trails... i can barely manage a paved greenway! and the conventional wisdom about never forgetting how to ride a bike? total baloney.) anyway, it's fun, and after all these years gear-shifting finally makes sense, but i think i'm gonna have to get a rack for the car if i'm ever to get a decent workout biking. although, since it's it's a 30ish-lb cruiser, carrying the bike up and down two flights of stairs almost qualifies. (unless... if i could get away with using the big shoulder/turn-lane on the left side of the one-way road going the opposite direction to get up to walker springs and then ride the sidewalks along there and middlebrook, like i do when i jog... is that against the rules? seems like i was told never to ride on the left side of the road as a kid... not to mention the whole one-way bit... but could i get an exception?)
kinda cool thing... after lugging it upstairs, i decided to find out just how retro the bike really is. according to this page and my serial number, my bike was made in june 1985 by giant for schwinn. which makes it 20 years old, just about the same vintage as my very first bicycle!
since my feet are still feeling a bit too battered from dancing to cajole them into running, i took the bike out for a spin this afternoon... i look like a super-dork in my helmet, and there's not that far to go in any direction before i run into scary traffic, but whizzing around the neighborhood and little greenway in walker springs park made me feel like a little kid again. well, a real chicken of a little kid, since i kept hitting the brakes every time a downhill and a curve happened together... (puts me in real awe of
mjeanette and mbarronj. i mean, geesh, trails... i can barely manage a paved greenway! and the conventional wisdom about never forgetting how to ride a bike? total baloney.) anyway, it's fun, and after all these years gear-shifting finally makes sense, but i think i'm gonna have to get a rack for the car if i'm ever to get a decent workout biking. although, since it's it's a 30ish-lb cruiser, carrying the bike up and down two flights of stairs almost qualifies. (unless... if i could get away with using the big shoulder/turn-lane on the left side of the one-way road going the opposite direction to get up to walker springs and then ride the sidewalks along there and middlebrook, like i do when i jog... is that against the rules? seems like i was told never to ride on the left side of the road as a kid... not to mention the whole one-way bit... but could i get an exception?)kinda cool thing... after lugging it upstairs, i decided to find out just how retro the bike really is. according to this page and my serial number, my bike was made in june 1985 by giant for schwinn. which makes it 20 years old, just about the same vintage as my very first bicycle!
