I stopped at a local bike shop (Wheel Sport) on my ride home last night. I needed to get a price on fenders and a bike rack. The kind sits over the rear wheel and allows me to add saddle bags. It looks like those items will cost me around $80.00 total.
I bought a couple of mirrors, one for me and one for Susan. It is a vast improvement over the mirror I had. It was one of those mirrors where objects are closer than they appear. I could never see anything behind me until it was right on top of me. This mirror is clear and sits snugly at the end of the handle bar.
The guy at the bike shop gave me great tip for installing the mirror. It fits into the tube at the end of the handle bar. Some bikes have caps over the hole and some have a grip. Our bikes have grips. So rather than take a knife and cut a ragged hole, he suggested using a hammer and tapping the end of the bar. That will cut the end of the grip off in a nice clean manner. It worked great!
Wheel Sport is selling Scooters. Fifty CC little scooters that get a hundred miles to the gallon and go about 30 mph. They are selling new ones for about $2,000.00. I need to start keeping an eye out for something like that. That and a tandem bike!
I rode the bus at my regular time and it was not as full as last week. Perhaps I need to log ridership by day of the week. Jasper and I got our bikes on and all was cool.
Yesterdays Total Mileage: 11.3 Miles
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