fooferdoggie
Well-Known Member
Man this was not a good weekend for riding. I usually get off early on Christmas Eve but it was raining and 37 so thats not a fun tandem Christmas light ride. Its not fun commuting in that weather. Well yesterday I guess I had too much sugar and felt too tired to ride. It does not take much to make me feel loopy but I think it was because I didn't to have breakfast before I had that small amount of cashew brittle. But last time I piloted the tandem after too much carbs we crashed so was not going to take any chances. It snowed a bit this morning and was pretty cold. So by afternoon its nice and thawed and we were going to go to a big display lane called peacock lane about 5 miles away. But the temps down to 33 and it's supposed to start snowing. The streets are dry here but I don't know around town. It does not take much for the front to slide on the tandem. I had wanted to change the bar on the tandem. I changed it a bit ago and it was great but just a tad too short when I wear heavy gloves. It was the hump in the center of the bar would not let me move the brake levers in enough. I wanted a straight bar with no angle at all but never found one but this one has little angle. I use duct tape around the bar to thicken it a bit before I use bar tape and trying to remove that the nit is 37 degrees is almost impossible. But got everything changed over ready for the ride that just got canceled. I was going to replace the headlight that came on. The tandem. It was a great light that only lighted the ground nice and wide but it was not bright enough on places with no light and I cracked its mount it was just plastic. So I bought a lights and motion to replace it same as on my commuter. But of course I forgot all my wiring tools to splice the wires. I can only work on the bike on weekends as I don't have light to see it in the evenings.
