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  • One year anniversary today

    From Mortimer Houghton@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 30 03:14:49 2024
    Today was my one year anniversary for restarting my cycling. As a sort of commemoration, this was also my best month cycling, having ridden for
    323km. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to start up again and am looking foward to another year on the bicycle.
    --
    There are the known knowns, things we know we know;
    and the known unknowns, things we know we do not know;
    but there are also the unknown unknowns,
    those things we don't know we don't know.

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  • From Rolf Mantel@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 11:40:18 2024
    Am 30.06.2024 um 05:14 schrieb Mortimer Houghton:
    Today was my one year anniversary for restarting my cycling. As a sort of commemoration, this was also my best month cycling, having ridden for
    323km. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to start up again and am looking foward to another year on the bicycle.

    Great, we have a meaningful message in rbs! However I don't see how to continue a conversation on this.

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  • From Mortimer Houghton@21:1/5 to Rolf Mantel on Wed Jul 3 02:22:05 2024
    Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> writes:

    Am 30.06.2024 um 05:14 schrieb Mortimer Houghton:
    Today was my one year anniversary for restarting my cycling. As a sort of >> commemoration, this was also my best month cycling, having ridden for
    323km. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to start up again and am looking >> foward to another year on the bicycle.

    Great, we have a meaningful message in rbs! However I don't see how to >continue a conversation on this.

    That was fine...it wasn't really a question, just wanted to share with like minded people the milestone in my progress. I decided to finally purchase some bicycling shorts and jersey so I don't roast quite so badly in the texas heat as I ride.

    Happy cycling to you,

    Mortimer

    --
    There are the known knowns, things we know we know;
    and the known unknowns, things we know we do not know;
    but there are also the unknown unknowns,
    those things we don't know we don't know.

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  • From pH@21:1/5 to Mortimer Houghton on Thu Jul 4 18:21:54 2024
    On 2024-07-03, Mortimer Houghton <mortimer@VivoBook.X512D> wrote:
    Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> writes:

    Am 30.06.2024 um 05:14 schrieb Mortimer Houghton:
    Today was my one year anniversary for restarting my cycling. As a sort of >>> commemoration, this was also my best month cycling, having ridden for
    323km. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to start up again and am looking >>> foward to another year on the bicycle.

    Great, we have a meaningful message in rbs! However I don't see how to >>continue a conversation on this.

    That was fine...it wasn't really a question, just wanted to share with like minded people the milestone in my progress. I decided to finally purchase some
    bicycling shorts and jersey so I don't roast quite so badly in the texas heat as I ride.

    Happy cycling to you,

    Mortimer

    Ooo, Texas. It 'ere be *hot* there.

    I also saw that some cyclists were clobbered from behind near Dallas/Fort Worth.

    Hopefully you are in a reasonably safe area (Santa Cruz, CA area, here).

    Welcome back. It's fun to do useful things by bicycle to make it easier to
    get on that saddle. I do a lot of shopping via bike to the local trader
    Joe's, for example.

    Typically 2 panniers but I can do 4 if needed and then add a Burley trailer
    if I want to bring back 50lb bags of bean, rice, etc....never have...but I could!

    pH in Aptos

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to mortimer@VivoBook.X512D on Fri Jul 5 00:17:35 2024
    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:22:05 -0000 (UTC), Mortimer Houghton <mortimer@VivoBook.X512D> wrote:

    I decided to finally purchase some
    bicycling shorts and jersey so I don't roast quite so badly in the texas heat as I ride.

    I wear a jersey mainly because it has six pockets. One for my phone,
    one for a pencil, one for a notebook, one for keys, lipstick,
    sunscreen, and ointment, one for my wallet, one for magnifying glasses
    and a paper towel.

    An all-cotton T-shirt is really cool if you dip it in water and wring
    it out before putting it on. But it dries so fast! I remember
    T-shirts as lasting only a mile or two.

    Once I stopped at Rotary Park and ran the sleeves of my linen jersey
    under the drinking fountain, and they were dry when I crossed a bridge
    that Google Maps says is three hundred and fifty feet from the
    fountain.

    In a linen jersey, I can put water from my drinking bottle on my
    shirt, but I made the current one out of quilting cotton after
    searching in vain for yellow linen, and water just beads up on it. I
    *can* get it wet, but more water goes onto the ground than soaks into
    the fabric.

    I make my jerseys with long sleeves to keep the sun off, and wet the
    sleeves in hot weather. I'm now searching for a sprinkler-top
    drinking bottle. Spray bottles and sprinkler cans are common, but
    none, so far, are meant for potable water.

    So I DuckDuckGoed again, and sprinkler caps for beverage bottles do
    exist. Now all I have to do is to find a store that sells them. It
    appears that the garden shop is the place to look.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Mortimer Houghton@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 7 17:07:16 2024
    Cycling clothes arrived. Looks like I'll get to test them out this Monday
    with my usual work commute. I'll let everyone know how it goes.

    --
    There are the known knowns, things we know we know; and the known
    unknowns, things we know we do not know; but there are also the
    unknown unknowns, those things we don't know we don't know...but
    what about the unknown knowns, things we do not know we know?

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