Ride for Thursday, 04 May

Went to Bedford for a Dr's appointment. Found on the way back that some car drivers really don't like being overtaken by a bike, even if they've got no way of moving their car in any case.

Stopped off at IdealBikes to see if there was a microadjust seat post in the pile that would fit the Nishiki, since the clamp is now a mangled pile of metal and the seatpost is most charitably described as "damaged". Roger went digging through for the best part of 20 minutes but couldn't find anything, so he picked out a seatpost from the Norco catalogue that he reckoned should do the trick, and it should be in on Monday. I noticed a girl's bike going for $50 on my way out, and I asked one of the other mechanics about it. He said if the sprogette's bike was in good condition that they'd probably be happy to swap it for me, and if not I'd at least get some tradein out of it. We're going to go down after supper to take a look, the sprogette should hopefully have a new bike that fits her after this!

Distance logged: 44.160km
Time: 110:03
Average speed: 24km/hr
Max speed: 55.4 km/hr
Temperature: 8C-12C, cloudy, intermittent drizzle
Cumulative distance: 2717.024km
Cumulative cost per km: $0.49
Monthly distance: 74.767km
Monthly cost per km: $1.01