Spring Peepers

Heard them tonight. Not a full-on spring peeper chorus, but enough to notice. For me, that's the first real sign spring's around the corner.

Did the Tuesday night ride with the Dtown boys. They're an older, slower, but respectable group that rides Dtown Tuesday nights and Marsh Creek Thursday nights. They're the group I originally started riding with back in late 2002. Always learning something from those guys.

Tonight was atrocious. Most everything was silly soft. We pedaled three times the distance as we spun twice for every move forward. Wasn't slick, just thick. Still nice to be outside.

Made it a whole hour before my knee started hurting (not too bad) tonight. I need to take all my bikes in and get them fitted. Considering the number of saddle sores I have this year, I'm riding way too much to have poorly fitting bikes. The garage style fittings I've been trying to do myself aren't cutting it. Yeah the fixie was fitted and worked nicely for a couple of weeks, but I cannibalized some of its parts to fit one of the others and broke the fitted fixie. What I need is a full time mechanic. Anyone interested? I've got a spare bed and lots of beer. Must work for free, since my bike budget this year doesn't include a mechanic salary. Must like dogs, cats, and cleaning the pool. If this sounds like the opportunity you've been looking for, long-haired freaky people apply within.

- b