Was 65 degrees some days ago. Now with the wind chill it is almost freezing.
I biked in Berlin a few years ago. Great Stadt for it with all the lanes.
Just got a 2021 Giant Revolt 2 gravel bike. My grandkids were cracking up how excited grandpa got over his new bike!
I hope to get it in to a bike shop to swap the 170 FSA cranks to 165 Shimano ones. That seems be the cutoff for my arthritic knees. Never had a 165 give me a lick of problems, never had a 170 that didn’t.
As I was checking around I found that there are a lot of women whom tend to be smaller than men that have that problem too. Their $$$ bike is a torture device until they get something like 135 cranks then they love it.
I have no idea why the industry doesn’t seem to realize this. 165 is the shortest crankarm you can get from a mainstream bike manufacturer.
I just bought a magnetic resistance trainer so my legs don’t kill me once I start riding to work next month. Stairs work a bit, but using the actual bike seems better somehow. Five minutes increase per day, until I get up to an hour. Then I start turning the resistance up until I can ride uphill all the way. Both ways (VBEG).
Girl Biker Performs - pretty good display
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3qTVg3hhs
24 degrees right now.
I can wait some days but then I want to hit it Big Time.
Rd later. Been a while since I used a bike as transportation, in Santa Festival, NM.
