RecumBum

The weather finally appears to have tilted toward spring, with temperature into the sixties and lower seventies. I managed to get in a few miles this week: 22 on Sunday, 36 on Monday, and another 20 yesterday. I may even sneak in a short ride this afternoon. I’m planning to take Friday off, then for [...]

Being able to map out a ride, either before or after you do it, is a very useful (and fun) capability. Here are a few of the online bicycle route mapping services I’ve tried: Gmaps Pedometer – One of the oldest and the best; elevation capabilities are crude Routeslip – Can add turn-by-turn directions 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 [...]