I violated one of my cardinal rules last night. I knew I was violating it while I was doing it, but I figured it would be okay (just this once!). I bought a cheap bike floor pump\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Sunday found me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (just an FYI, sometimes when you refer to your wife as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d instead of her actually name, certain fringe segments of the female gender get PISSED. So you have been warned!) and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Kid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d up at my parents house, having a cook out.<\/p>\n
Personally, I was engaged in a personal fashion show, looking for the gaudiest cycling clothes I could find as I was finally going to start commuting to work a couple of days a week. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting old and weak and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to put the 8 inch hydraulic brakes on that! (nice deft cycling metaphor there, eh?)<\/p>\n
Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only going to be doing it twice a week, I figure three shorts and three jerseys and three pairs of gloves would hold me over. And what some eye melting combinations I found, compliments of Oakley sample sales and my fondness for orange. Yikes. The only way I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to get hit by a car is if they are blinded by my red \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcchicken slaughter camo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shorts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Did find my red Fox DH gloves with the plastic knuckle guards, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I can operate the STI with those on.<\/p>\n
My parents were quite happy to have on of the 42 bicycles removed from their garage and the Voodoo now has a new home. Down 92 stairs. Out on the walkway to our lanai, leaning against a wall. Very undignified, but I figured this was better then buying something cheap and crappy or just not riding. And it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be used as a drying rack.<\/p>\n
I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find my Kryptonite New York chain, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably hanging out with my Niterider charging, having a wicked good time. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m certainly not going to bring my nice Silca pump to hang out on the lanai, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Time to fix problems with the judicious application of cash. I bought a new Kryptonite lock (Security rating of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc8\u00e2\u20ac\u2122! versus the security rating of 9! For an additional $20) and a Topeak floor pump.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever managed to levitate myself off the ground with a floor pump before TRYING TO GET ROAD TIRES TO A WEAK100 PSI!!!!!!! But there I was, both hands on the pump, and all my body weight braced against my hands, feet in the air, trying to eek out that last little psi. Needless to say, that pump is going back. Swear the handle was bending half under my weight.<\/p>\n
Riding into working this morning was entertaining. Resplendent in red Oakley shorts and the vintage 10th Anniversary Syncrosv jersey and the courier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bag the size of a small person (which oddly doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you see over your right shoulder when changing lanes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6) I rode to work. 17~ minutes of riding time, mostly down hill the whole way and I was\/am tired. I have no car sense and I think I hit all the potholes in the road and my butt was sore.
\nOh boy. Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the uphill grunt to get home. At least I can roll the bike down the 92 stairs this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I violated one of my cardinal rules last night. I knew I was violating it while I was doing it, but I figured it would be okay (just this once!). I bought a cheap bike floor pump\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Sunday found me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (just an FYI, sometimes when you refer to your wife as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-h6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}