RecumBum

This is a decent route: From Green Forest, Arkansas, take highway 103 north for about seven miles. It’ll be mostly downhill for 7-8 miles. In my case, I also had a tailwind, which meant a lot of coasting. At Yokum (nothing but a couple houses and an old storefront left of this town), take county [...]

Under cloud cover, with rain threatening, I decided to stay close to home, and do a loop around the island at Holiday Island. The northern half of the island is relatively flat, but the southern half is quite hilly. I remembered it as steep, but I assumed I could manage it. Hardly. I rode the [...]

(Yeah, the title is a cliche, and I hate it too. But what you gonna do? It’s true!) The day started off chilly and a bit windy, and I wasn’t sure I was going to venture out, but the afternoon mellowed out, and I took off in mid-afternoon, driving to Berryville and wandering around trying [...]

Today was a travel day, as I drove down to our timeshare vacation place in Holiday Island, Arkansas. But before I left I made a run to the bike shop to have them look at my derailleur. After rummaging around in the spare parts bin for awhile, Chris came up with a 26-tooth chainring to [...]

After getting the new chainrings (swapping from 30-42-52 to 24-39-52), I went on a short ride on Sunday. I definitely noticed the difference in the middle chainring. It felt great. So good, in fact, that I never left the middle chainring. Monday I went on another ride, and this time I actually used the small [...]

I picked up the bikes from the shop today. It took one day longer than planned because the wrong part came in and they had to reorder. Actually, the part arrived at the shop (via UPS) just as I did, so I had to wait around while they did the necessary surgery. Eventually, all was [...]

With the two recumbents in the shop, and the weather turning unexpectedly mild, I decided to take down my old 10-speed bike and see if I could ride it. I could have gone and picked up the EZ-Sport, since it was supposed to be ready today, but I didn’t want to drive 70 miles just [...]

I dropped the Django and EZ-Sport off at the shop today. The EZ-Sport hadn’t been ridden since last summer (except for a few miles on the trainer), but its tuneups are free (since I bought the bike there), and it had been nearly a year since its last. The Django hadn’t had a tuneup yet [...]