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I rode 14 miles today, still getting over a bad cold but good enough to ride for the first time in a couple of weeks. I rode through Tennessee Illinois today, a very small town and my wife grew up just a few miles from it. This picture is in front of the cafe there, my wife worked here about...

It’s been unusually warm here, temps in the high seventies and low eighties, light winds but I’ve been fighting a cold for a few days. I’m mostly over it but still have a cough keeping me from riding. I hope to get back out next week.

On car and truck tires the date is molded in but you have to know how to read it. It sounds like the 2024 isn’t the date they were made.

Is the date code on the sidewall in your first group of pictures 2024? If so they aren’t old.

I rode 13 miles today. Another old tractor powering a grain auger caught my eye.

I had a similar click in mine. They put new pedals on and a new front chain ring. That fixed it and I’m not sure but I think the chain ring was the problem

I did 14 miles today, the roads near our house as usual. The harvest is still going strong but it rained just a little last night so the soybeans were a little too wet.

Ok, I’ll get us back on track today with a couple pictures of the mountains of Western Illinois. 😀. I rode 14 miles today. A couple of pictures of harvest time. The old John Deere still working by running a grain auger.

I rode 14 miles yesterday and 17 today. The harvest is in full swing now mostly the corn but they are starting on soybeans too. The picture is a recently picked corn field.

I’m not sure what that means but it was my wife and and our two adult children, it wasn’t cheap.

I did 16 miles today. I haven’t been able to ride much. We spent two weeks in Switzerland then after that helped my daughter move. A couple of pictures from my ride. The corn is drying fast, on the rode its like a small canyon with the corn on either side.

I rode 13 miles this morning. I forgot to take any pictures. It’s been a while, we just got back from several days in Switzerland and a couple in Italy. A picture I took when we took a ferry on Lake Como in Italy.

I did 13 miles today. Nearly perfect weather. We had been having hot days with humidity off the charts so we had heat index’s up to 115. Today was in the 70’s with lower humidity. Big fluffy clouds also. This particular road is normally paved but they tilled it up so it was like gravel. I...

I rode a little over 13 miles this morning. A picture of a solar farm that was recently completed and the road in front of it. The picture shows what is probably less than 10% of the panels. This time of the year the solar farm is surrounded by 8 foot high corn. Also a train that went past me.

I rode some distance today, maybe 14 miles? I rode by a friends house and saw them walking in and said hi. It ended up they were in a hurry his daughter in law had a car that wouldn’t start. The next thing I know they are driving me home to get my battery load tester and were at her dentist...

I thought the same thing a few months back, a clicking and I thought the worst . They replaced my pedals and front chain ring. It was most likely the chain ring in my case.

Another technique that might help is starting from a dead stop in eco and as you get up to speed start turning up the assist.

Stefan is correct, if you keep your cadence a little higher it helps. Your body may also learn how to keep some of the jerkiness out of it too.

I rode 17 miles today. The heat index was over 100 by the time I got back. Nice day for a ride because the winds were very light except for the heat. I occasionally will ride and have a 1000 feet of elevation gain, not much gain or decent on the stretch of rode in the pic. I’m on an old two...

The Canadian smoke is much worse though, it smells like sweaty hockey gear and stale Molson. 😀