One of our friends, Britt, just moved out from Alabama, and she used to love road biking. She hadn't biked in two years and wanted to start again. She asked us to go with her, and we were happy to obligue. We decided that for her maiden voyage, we'd summit Grizzly Peak. It's a nice taste of the hills, but you don't go down the other side, becuase that means you have to climb back up again to get back home. I'm not really sure what kind of a climb it is, but it's got to be somewhere between 1000 and 1500 feet. It's a good ride, and a hard ride for someone who is out of shape. Last night, George met a girl named Jamie at bible study who runs marathons and triathlons, so he asked if she wanted to come along. She did, so at 9 am on Sunday morning, Jamie, Britt, George, Tim and I all met up, and started biking up Tunnel Road. We wound our way up the mountain, which has some really beautiful views of East Bay and San Francisco and I guess the whole bay area, really. Britt really was a trooper, and she managed to climb the entire thing in her first ride of two years. I was very impressed, and she was very tired. When we got to the top, Britt was really happy, and we rode back down into town. We biked Britt home, and then Tim and I decided to grab some food on the way home. Tim ate a lot.
I have been meaning to take my bike apart, clean it up, clean all the parts, put them all back together, and re-cable everything. I have been pushing it off for far too long, so today I cut all the cables so that I couldn't ride until I cleaned it all up. I ended up taking everything apart, cleaning it with simple green and a toothbrush in the bathtub, and them reassembling everything. I also discovered that Tim can not, for the life of him, get my cassette off my wheel. That might be a problem someday, but it's not a problem right now. I guess I'll deal with that when I really need to. After everything was cleaned, I dried it all up, and put the bike back together, with Tim's help. Tim cut up the cable housing because our wire cutters are so bad that only someone with superhuman strength like Tim can use them, and then we re-cabled my bike together. I put a new chain on, and Tim also helped me tune everything, which was really nice of him. I hope it rides like a dream now.
I have been meaning to take my bike apart, clean it up, clean all the parts, put them all back together, and re-cable everything. I have been pushing it off for far too long, so today I cut all the cables so that I couldn't ride until I cleaned it all up. I ended up taking everything apart, cleaning it with simple green and a toothbrush in the bathtub, and them reassembling everything. I also discovered that Tim can not, for the life of him, get my cassette off my wheel. That might be a problem someday, but it's not a problem right now. I guess I'll deal with that when I really need to. After everything was cleaned, I dried it all up, and put the bike back together, with Tim's help. Tim cut up the cable housing because our wire cutters are so bad that only someone with superhuman strength like Tim can use them, and then we re-cabled my bike together. I put a new chain on, and Tim also helped me tune everything, which was really nice of him. I hope it rides like a dream now.
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