Slightly more riding than pushing
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Glad to get out, but this was less fun and more of just a workout. A bit of snow +drifting last night meant the rideable trails demanded full mental concentration to stay on the center packed line. My front tire at 2.5psi wanders all the hell over the place and my arms are real tired from wrestling the bars.
There was no downhill. Uphill was a dance of weight distribution, pedal pressure, and trying to maintain traction. Flat sections felt like uphills due to the soft/drifted snow. Downhill sections felt like flats, just no fun, no coasting at all. Stopping pedaling was as good as applying the brakes.
I walked maybe 1/2 mile of open meadow too drifted to ride. I’m feeling pretty wiped.
That said, bikes are still pretty fun. Had some sun, had some near-whiteout.
(There land is flat here, that’s all snow).
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Every once in a while I see something on a ride and think, “@johnasavoia could take a real good picture of that.”
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Yeah, I want @johnasavoia to come out to the PNW for a week and just take magic light photos of weird cloudy days and piercing blue skys with gray water, weird lights at night on rides through the industrial district, and coyotes in the park.
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@johnasavoia tours the country. whole series with the only common thread (other than him being really good at capturing) is that the trajectory is based on tarckers locations
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lets get this FUNDED
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It’ll be Craig Mod with corn dogs
i got you on some dinner if you come through!
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The moon was bright AF last night for sure!
nice! I used to love riding down to Calumet park and from there into Gary. One time my friends and I got chased out of the big scrapyard(?) by a really angry guy in a pickup truck. That whole part of the metro is cool, lots of fun places to go poke around.
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Dang I haven’t been down that way in too long!
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the bike infrastructure on the southeast side and Whiting / Hammond has come a long long way in the last 10 years or so, but there are still lots of weird little bushwhacked paths around Wolf Lake to take one’s chances on
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