Snow day
on February 1st, 2007
Above: Photo of a snow coated bike, taken a few winters ago. (via DBPAC, photo credit: Wessel Kok)
Today was a snow day. My brother wanted to ride, but once he felt how cold it was and saw the icy roads, we decided it would be better to wait until it dries up this weekend. It might not be as snowy as in the photo above, taken here in Durham a few winters ago, but it was enough to ice up the roads a little.
Above: My brother’s road bike, laying in the snow next to the sidewalk.
I’ll be sure to post some more updates once I get a good chance to ride. It’s a little chilly today (well, by North Carolina standards). Not exactly a cycling day, if you know what I mean. I think I’ll go have some hot chocolate for now :)
This past weekend, my brother, Al and my neighbor, Dustin rode down the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway over to Bruegger’s Bagels for lunch.
The weather was great (it was before the cold front with all this snow rolled in on Tuesday) and they had a nice (not too long) ride. The three of us have ridden the MLK parkway many times, and since it has bike lanes it is an easy way for us to get to the old South Square and Homestead Market area.
Above: Dustin leaving the MLK parkway and turning into the bike lane.
On his way home, Al was not more than 1 or 2 blocks away from home when he got a flat tire. When he returned, we discovered that a fairly large staple had become lodged in his tire and caused the flat tire.
Above: Pulling the staple out of Al’s tire.
We removed the staple, and then removed the wheel so that we could replace the inner tube. We didn’t have an extra tube the correct size, so the next day I headed over to Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy a new tube. Sure enough, I bought the wrong size, and it was not until today that I was able to return to Dick’s and exchange the tubes. Tomorrow we should be able to switch out the tubes on Al’s bike and he will be ready to go.