First Fall

I slid out the rear wheel of the attack the other day. Going around a left hand corner at about 25 to 30 kph(guess based on other riding around this corner) I think I may have applied the rear brake, not sure but have to justify it to myself. The rear let go and I was slipping across the road behind the bike. The left foot released from the pedal, the right did not, the left elbow lost some skin, the left buttock hit hard. I have a bruise on the bum and a sore elbow but nothing serious.
I am waiting for a speedo mount from the lbs next week. I also need to look at smartubes for drink bottles as the current bottle location is too hard to replace after drinking and this prevents drinking while riding.
I am enjoying the riding and the balance is getting better.

New Bent in the stable

I have bought and am now riding a TW-Bents Attack. The first ride was today, a bit shaky at times but generally a great ride. I need to do a few more adjustments. I have the disk brake version and fitted shimano SPD pedals

Noted items on the bike includes
1. The lower chain tube bounces a bit and sometiems flicks into my shoe.
2. The very rare foot wheel interference
3. The unit could fit 700 wheels if required.
4. I noticed more road noise/vibration. This could be due to the higher pressure tyres
5. Speed looks good but I will need aa speedo to confirm this. I have a mounting kit for an Echo F2 on order to use a spare speedo I already have. This model also has cadence.
6. The SRAM shifters are stiff but operate well and took little time to get used to the correct direction.

In all I am looking forward to riding this bike.

Riding in the City

Wednesday evening I had a meeting in the centre of the city so I drove to Malvern East Station and rode from there on the wedgie. The path is closed in part for repairs and I failed to see all the detour signs. I rode 19km to the city and only 13 back. It was an interesting and enjoyable ride for the most part. Some of the path is not best suited for the road bke and I understand why most people have fat tyres for the paths. I almost come a guttsa on tram tracks at one time but managed to survive.
Friday I did a short ride to work of 9 km and 200 km after work. It was a great day for this time of year and the ride was enjoyable both ways. A bit cool in the morning but that is to be expected at this time of year. The ride home I watched the sum moving down to set. A nice evening.
Saturday I rode the usual 42 km Inverloch Wonthaggi Cape ride and had a good ride. A 70+ km ride is planned for next sunday. Look forward to that if the weather is good.

I'm back

I haven't been blogging for a while due to life being busy. I was riding fairly often over summer and we holidayed on the Murray to Mountains rail trail. See http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3Tzut&doc_id=3572&v=2D for the story. Shortly after this I developed AF in my heart and this slowed me down for a bot while it was sorted and riding was greatly reduced.
I have resolved the AF for now and am back riding. Took me odometer readings toady after 50 yesterday and 43 km today on the trike. My reading are 11620 km for the trike, and 3401 for the wedgie. This gives 5767 and 2931 since the end of june 2007. 14 months i have covered 8718km or average of 622km per month. This is above what I had thought I have done lately.
Anyway, I am looking forward to another year of riding with the improving weather. I hope to do the Slog to Sale to get a 160 (100 mile) ride and do the GVBR again this year. I also hope to purchase a 2 wheel recumbent high racer as a tax and heart special.

End of year totals

In November (including December 1st of the GVBR) I totaled 1040 km on the trike and 147 on the wedgie
In December totals were 490 on the trike and 103 on the wedgie
Adjusted km for the last 6 months are 2801 on the trike and 1020 on the wedgie a total of 3821 or 147 km per week average. Not quiet the 150km mark but better then the 120 I had managed earlier in the year. I will need to look back and consider the whole year now.

Run to the end of the year

The days to the end of the year went past in a blur.

Riding wise I did the following.
12/11 19km Trike
13/11 44km trike
15/11 29km trike
17/11 43km Wedgie
18/11 42km wedgie and 21km trike
19/11 20km trike
20/11 19km trike
23/11 29km Trike

The Great Vic Bike Ride
Phillip Island to Wonthaggi 24/11 57km Trike
Wonthaggi to Foster 25/11 83km trike
Rest Day Foster 26/11 15 km Trike
Foster to Yinnar 27/11 85km Trike
Yinnar to Rawson 28/11 68km Trike
Rawson to Maffra 29/11 88km Trike
Maffra to Paynesville 30/11 91km Trike
Paynesville to Buchan 1/12 90km Trike

The GVBR was well run and enjoyable on the most part.

December riding
I had a rest for a week and was on call with added bad weather
8/12 19km Wedgie and 31km Trike
11/12 52km Trike comunte to and from work
13/12 52km Trike comute to and from work
15/12 42km Wedgie Group ride
16/12 42km Wedgie
17/12 58km Trike Work Commute
19/12 66km Work commute
20/12 26km trike ride to work and picked up to come home
26/12 60km Trike
27/12 32km Trike
28/12 31km Trike
29/12 50km Trike
31/12 32km Trike

The speedos at the end of the year read 2060 on the Wedgie and 8634 on the trike. I will need to work out what has happened in a later post.