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Today was the second time I've gone to the store on my bike. Several times during the winter I've seen that the streets were passable, and made an excuse to go riding, but now I'm starting to run errands that I was going to run anyway -- indeed, today I'd put on bike-shoe incompatible thick socks and combed my hair into a helmet-incompatible Mama Katzenjammer before realizing that there was plenty of daylight left. The first trip was on an unseasonably-warm day, so I went out in only one pair of sweatpants and only one jersey, and discovered that I was pushing the season a bit. When I feel a trifle underdressed during a walk, all I have to do is walk a bit faster -- but that doesn't work at *all* on a bike! Learning from that, I wore two pairs of sweatpants and two jerseys today -- but I should have worn a winter jersey instead of a spring jersey under my summer jersey. And riding faster still doesn't help! But I got everything packed neatly in my panniers, and didn't squash the bananas. Experience in judging the contents of the shopping cart helps. Also helped that I couldn't find the Michelena entrees that were supposed to be on special at a dollar each. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:01:41 -0500, Joy Beeson
wrote: Today was the second time I've gone to the store on my bike. Several times during the winter I've seen that the streets were passable, and made an excuse to go riding, but now I'm starting to run errands that I was going to run anyway -- indeed, today I'd put on bike-shoe incompatible thick socks and combed my hair into a helmet-incompatible Mama Katzenjammer before realizing that there was plenty of daylight left. The first trip was on an unseasonably-warm day, so I went out in only one pair of sweatpants and only one jersey, and discovered that I was pushing the season a bit. When I feel a trifle underdressed during a walk, all I have to do is walk a bit faster -- but that doesn't work at *all* on a bike! Learning from that, I wore two pairs of sweatpants and two jerseys today -- but I should have worn a winter jersey instead of a spring jersey under my summer jersey. And riding faster still doesn't help! But I got everything packed neatly in my panniers, and didn't squash the bananas. Experience in judging the contents of the shopping cart helps. Also helped that I couldn't find the Michelena entrees that were supposed to be on special at a dollar each. I thought that spring was coming two weeks ago when it came close to 70F but that was only one day and then it was back to winter. The toughest part of commuting by bike is big temperature swings during the day. It was 28F when I left the house this morning (12.5 miles to work) and will be 48 or so when I head home. That's two totally different sets of biking clothes so I have to bring them along. |
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Joy, I respect your knowledge and skill about sewing, and I am
learning a lot from your sewing site. Thanks for making the information available. |
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