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(Tom Keats) writes:

I finally took the rain cover off my helmet a couple of days
ago

... and now it's raining.

At last! Any more sunshine, and I would have been driven insane.


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"Claire Petersky" writes:
"Tom Keats" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Tom Keats) writes:

I finally took the rain cover off my helmet a couple of days
ago

... and now it's raining.

At last! Any more sunshine, and I would have been driven insane.

Yeah, it's actually quite a relief. Trouble is, do I
risk making the rain stop by leaving the cover on, or
am I doomed to having wet hair?


cheers,
Tom

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"Tom Keats" wrote in message
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"Claire Petersky" writes:
"Tom Keats" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Tom Keats) writes:

I finally took the rain cover off my helmet a couple of days
ago

... and now it's raining.

At last! Any more sunshine, and I would have been driven insane.

Yeah, it's actually quite a relief. Trouble is, do I
risk making the rain stop by leaving the cover on, or
am I doomed to having wet hair?

We really need the rain -- they've already declared a drought -- so please
keep the cover off, at least for a little longer.

Today I'm at home, nursing a minor cold. It just started to hail like
gangbusters, at the exact time I would have been riding my bike at home.
There's a certain amount of satisfaction in being at home with an afghan on
one's lap and a cup of tea, rather than out there with little balls of hail
going ping-ping-ping, bouncing off of one's jacket.


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Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Home of the meditative cyclist:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
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In rec.bicycles.misc Gnarlito wrote:

I also lived and cycle-commuted in Salt Lake City. It might be mecca if
you like to ski untracked snow, but it's definitely not a
cycle-friendly town. There wre a grand total of two safe cross-town
(East-West) routes while I lived there, A couple of measly bike paths
down along the Jordan River, and lots of really wide roads that,
unfortunately, are totally unsafe to ride on.

I'm happy to say that SLC proper has improved a lot of late. Bike
racks on all buses, bikes allowed on light rail, and at least four
cross-town bike routes last time I checked. Thanks due to Mayor Rocky
Anderson, one of the state's paltry handful of democrats.
The suburbs still suck, though.

Bill

__o | SUVs are the reason gas costs $2 a gallon.
_`\(,_ | Bicycles are the reason it isn?t $3.
(_)/ (_) |

In article ,
"Claire Petersky" writes:
"Tom Keats" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Claire Petersky" writes:
"Tom Keats" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Tom Keats) writes:

I finally took the rain cover off my helmet a couple of days
ago

... and now it's raining.

At last! Any more sunshine, and I would have been driven insane.

Yeah, it's actually quite a relief. Trouble is, do I
risk making the rain stop by leaving the cover on, or
am I doomed to having wet hair?

We really need the rain -- they've already declared a drought -- so please
keep the cover off, at least for a little longer.

Well, after that last post I donned my rain cape and covered helmet
and took the bike outside. It had stopped raining, and blue sky
was beginning to poke through the clouds. So I doffed the rain cape,
but left the helmet cover on, and rode down to the manpower office to
look at the job bank. When I left there, it was a little drizzly,
there was a good, stiff breeze kicking up, and a large dark cloud
loomed threateningly above. I thought we were in for a thundershower.
On returning home, as I coasted into the back yard I noticed it was
half-assedly trying to hail. I guess we got the edge of your hailstorm.
Now there's a glorious azure sky with puffy, mashed-potato clouds.

So I'll take the helmet cover off again.


cheers,
Tom

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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:30:09 -0800, ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

Now there's a glorious azure sky with puffy, mashed-potato clouds.

So I'll take the helmet cover off again.

Thank you. We really do need more rain.
I think I'll wash my bike and hang out some laundry.
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Zoot Katz writes:
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:30:09 -0800, ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

Now there's a glorious azure sky with puffy, mashed-potato clouds.

So I'll take the helmet cover off again.

Thank you. We really do need more rain.
I think I'll wash my bike and hang out some laundry.

The cover is off and the sky is overcast again.
This thing is getting scary. Maybe I should burn it.
It looks dorky, anyways.


cheers,
Tom

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Although, I avoid riding in the rain here in NYC ( I hate having to
cleanup the bike), if I did get caught, I wouldn't have a wet hair
problem cause I shave my head clean. :-)

Tom Keats wrote:

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"Claire Petersky" writes:


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(Tom Keats) writes:


I finally took the rain cover off my helmet a couple of days
ago


... and now it's raining.


At last! Any more sunshine, and I would have been driven insane.



Yeah, it's actually quite a relief. Trouble is, do I
risk making the rain stop by leaving the cover on, or
am I doomed to having wet hair?


cheers,
Tom

Claire Petersky wrote:

Today I'm at home, nursing a minor cold. It just started to hail like
gangbusters, at the exact time I would have been riding my bike at home.
There's a certain amount of satisfaction in being at home with an afghan on
one's lap and a cup of tea, rather than out there with little balls of hail
going ping-ping-ping, bouncing off of one's jacket.

:-P

Well, at least they were *little* balls of hail. The previous time I
was out in hail cycling it was larger (about pea sized).

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In article . net,
JoeD writes:

Although, I avoid riding in the rain here in NYC ( I hate having to
cleanup the bike), if I did get caught, I wouldn't have a wet hair
problem cause I shave my head clean. :-)

I've actually been considering that. But at 51+ and no hint
of male pattern baldness, I figure I might as well flaunt my
luxurious (although increasingly salt & pepper) locks.


cheers,
Tom

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