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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Patching TPU innertube
Date: 30 Jan 2025 11:06:57 GMT
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Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:34:07 -0500, Joy Beeson
> <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> I get to go for a bike ride tomorrow!  I'm going to a grocery four
>> whole miles away.  Weather Underground says that it's going to be warm
>> enough that it's possible to get wet.
> 
> Ride somewhat curtailed:  I'd planned to have lunch at the Panda
> Express near Meijer, and fiddled around moving my old horizontal
> monitor to my new computer, etc. thinking to leave an hour before time
> for lunch.  Ended up leaving at 12:12, and the pharmacy I planned to
> stop at on the way back closes at four, so I needed to get there at
> three, which meant leaving Meijer at two.  I ate a fruit-and-grain bar
> and a smoked snack stick.
> 
> I haven't lost as much muscle as I feared.  I was halfway up McKinley
> and realized "Hey!  I haven't shifted down!"  Up until then I'd been
> distracted a bit with blowing my nose.  (McKinley is my own private
> bikeway, and has no intersections before one gets to the top.)   (The
> city paved it a few years ago in hope of selling the Gatke buildings,
> but finally had to demolish them themselves.)
> 
> Bedtime
> 
> 
> 
> Sunday, 26 January, 2025
> 
> I was much concerned that it took me twenty-five minutes to ride from
> Zales to home, but after going to bed, I remembered that instead of
> riding around the building and crossing Center on Lincoln, I'd gone to
> the coming-in-when-westbound-on-Center exit of the parking lot and
> waited a few minutes before realizing that it would be quicker to go
> to the stoplight.  Then there was some inconveniently-synchronized
> traffic on Winona when I wanted to cross, then I stopped at our
> mailbox and made some false starts at safely stashing two important
> letters.  (I'd stashed the mail insecurely before remembering that I
> have a document slot for maps and stuff on the insulated pannier.)
> 
> 
> Sunday evening.  I think I wrote the above after taking my
> middle-of-the-night pill.  I've forgotten what I meant to say about
> the ride.
> 
> Checking the weather for next Saturday's ride (not bad), I noted that
> on Friday, we're due for "Light Rain 1.3 in".  An inch is "light"?
> 
> 
> Monday, 27 January 2025
> 
> I meant to enlarge upon "stronger than expected after all this time".
> It took only forty-six minutes to ride to Meijer when I'd allowed an
> hour, and I stopped to investigate a squeaky pannier.  Only
> thirty-seven minutes to ride from Meijer to Zales, and I stopped to
> re-tie a scarf that had loosened while I was in Meijer.
> 
> Google Maps says it's 3.3 miles, 5.3 mph, 9 kph.
> 
> I think I used the wrong conversion factor for kph.
> 
> 4.5 miles for trip out.   36 minutes.  7.5 mph.
> 
> I'd better send this now if I want to do it today.
> 

That’s fine and utility trips don’t need to be performance minded some can
be clearly but they don’t need to be!

Been very wet in uk, but have dry day so planning a longer explore late
afternoon/evening to meet folks in the pub later.

Roger Merriman