road notes
As usual, I mostly love biking on plowed winter streets. When the lines are less visible, cars seem to give me a much wider berth. Also, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dilletante dug up God's Own Balaclava for me this weekend, so my face was happy on my ride in.
My asthma has been surprisingly bad this winter. I'm not sure why; maybe it's having a longhaired cat in the house? Maybe the transition to supercold weather was shorter? Maybe it's just bad luck? Whatever it is, I am tired of the wheezing punched-in-the-throat feeling I get sometimes. This balaclava has just the right combination of wind-blocking material all over my cheeks and nose, and air holes under my nostrils and over my mouth. Once I put my glasses in a place where they didn't fog up, it was fantastic.
I'm thinking of retiring my perfectly amazing 10-year-old Timbuk2 messenger bag in favor of one that is covered in reflective material. Anybody want a sturdy yellow and grey messenger bag that is completely awesome and totally intact? I love it enough that I probably won't be willing to part with it until I have another in hand (and I haven't found one yet). It doesn't have a laptop pocket, but you can have my Timbuk2 laptop sleeve if you want it.
dilletante and I still need to break his bike out of its prison -- running an angle grinder off of my car engine didn't work well enough, and trying to freeze the U-lock with drugstore freon and then hit it with a hammer *also* didn't work. So, in the meantime, he is riding my cyclocross bike, and the skinny bald tires on my summery road bike just won't do. So! I'm riding spike's bike, a Specialized Crossroads. It's so UPRIGHT! I haven't ridden on flat bars in years, and these are extremely upright flat bars. It's an entirely different experience. I'm kind of loving it, for now.
I want to make clown-nose nosewarmers to protect me when it's cold outside. With LEDs. Just because.
Also? I am SO HAPPY that the days are getting longer now. I like the part of winter that's light and snowy much better than the part that's just dark and grim and sucky.
dilletante dug up God's Own Balaclava for me this weekend, so my face was happy on my ride in.My asthma has been surprisingly bad this winter. I'm not sure why; maybe it's having a longhaired cat in the house? Maybe the transition to supercold weather was shorter? Maybe it's just bad luck? Whatever it is, I am tired of the wheezing punched-in-the-throat feeling I get sometimes. This balaclava has just the right combination of wind-blocking material all over my cheeks and nose, and air holes under my nostrils and over my mouth. Once I put my glasses in a place where they didn't fog up, it was fantastic.
I'm thinking of retiring my perfectly amazing 10-year-old Timbuk2 messenger bag in favor of one that is covered in reflective material. Anybody want a sturdy yellow and grey messenger bag that is completely awesome and totally intact? I love it enough that I probably won't be willing to part with it until I have another in hand (and I haven't found one yet). It doesn't have a laptop pocket, but you can have my Timbuk2 laptop sleeve if you want it.
dilletante and I still need to break his bike out of its prison -- running an angle grinder off of my car engine didn't work well enough, and trying to freeze the U-lock with drugstore freon and then hit it with a hammer *also* didn't work. So, in the meantime, he is riding my cyclocross bike, and the skinny bald tires on my summery road bike just won't do. So! I'm riding spike's bike, a Specialized Crossroads. It's so UPRIGHT! I haven't ridden on flat bars in years, and these are extremely upright flat bars. It's an entirely different experience. I'm kind of loving it, for now.I want to make clown-nose nosewarmers to protect me when it's cold outside. With LEDs. Just because.
Also? I am SO HAPPY that the days are getting longer now. I like the part of winter that's light and snowy much better than the part that's just dark and grim and sucky.