Whoa! its been how long?!

Okay so here comes the list of excuses. After I brought my bike in the house to attempt to clean the inside (bad idea by the way) I brought it in to get regular service and found out that I deviated a new cassette, new crank, you chain, and had a broken axle...... so I got the axle fixed. the rest I'm afraid far exceeded the value of the bike. But finding all this out took a whole week.

so then I decided to order new bike. I got the rally detour 2.0. it's cool it's got flashed headlights taillights and the servomotor that keeps them going whenever I start pedaling. of course spent 700 bucks on a bike and another hundred on the bags. So the whole idea of saving money by bicycling instead of driving is going to take a little longer to realize.

And while I've been gone I started my tomato seeds and pepper seeds. and I should start at 11 plant hydroponic garden you see all over the Internet. so stay tuned for gardening spinoff blog.

how do you clean a bike in the winter

so how do you clean a bike in the winter with no hose. I've ruled out paper towels with Windex. And I ruled out cleaning it in the bathtub ... I swear it seemed like a good idea at the time and it went (in hind site not surprisingly) horribly wrong

But after just a few short trips in the snow and rain now the bike wobbles and grinds .... concerning

of course it rained

30% chance of rain and sure enough I got to test out the rain gear which held up pretty well considering.

Handle bars seemed to have slipped and the bike seems to be sqeaking but only in low gear when heading up hill. Nothing seems to be rubbing and I cant recreate it when I'm not on the bike.

heck with the rain

and So I remind myself that's why I have rain gear

snow again!

well so much for ridding today. Check weather 80% chance of rain. As I struggled to get out of bed this morning I wondered if it wouldn't be better to hold off on bicycling until march better weather and all.

could the snow be gone?

Looking at the ten day outlook and the worst of it seems to be a 60% chance on Thursday, that seems pretty good. I'll prob ride Mon, off Tuesday, ride Wed. Then see what the weather update is for Thursday.

Back on the road

Well I was happy to be back on the bike again. Looking forward to spring and summer when the concern is running out of water rather than whether or not the water bottle will freeze.

This will be the only day I ride this week. Ride Monday, snow Tuesday, snow Wednesday, off Thursday, snow Friday.