When is the rain going to stop?

It rained again today, but I went for a ride anyway.  I with all the new parts the bike is much easier to peddle, but the new rear breaks SQUEAK more than the old breaks did.  If it is not raining tomorrow I will have to go to the bike shop and tell them.  Hope they can adjust them as the noise will make me crazier than I already am.  It was too wet today to take any pictures of the new parts.  I found a copy of Dungeon Siege II Broken World and it should be here within the next few days. I found most of the game modifications on CD and other hard drives. So the computer should be good to go in a few days!

Bike still needs a few minor adjustments.

The bike still needs a few minor adjustments, but is much easier to ride, gears shift better than they have in years. I actually was able to take a fifty mile ride yesterday in the amount of time that it normally takes me to go forty miles.  That is a major improvement.  I will have to post pictures of the new parts this is a cycling blog :)

Bike Repair and where did I put those Game Disks?

The bike repair went well, had the bike at the shop by 6 minutes after 8 this morning, and it was ready to ride about 4 hours later.  I only had time for a short test in the bike store parking lot, because of other obligations however the new breaks and derailers look very nice and I was able to shift through all the gears.  I will run a test tomorrow in the hills just to see if I can hit all the gears without any problems.  I was going to install the three games I normally play on my computer, however I can only find Disk 1 for two of the games and without all three there is really no point in installing them, need the key codes anyway and they are with the disks.  I know I put them somewhere safe, wish I could remember where that was.  I have a bad case of CRS (can't remember shit). As an example I was at my parents house last night and was taking out the trash, when I got to the garage I could not remember why I was there even though I was holding the trash bag.  As my dad says its a bitch getting old.

Computer is mostly back together

The computer hardware is all back together, most of the software that I use has been reinstalled, I still need to reinstall the games, I hope I can find all the patches, fixes, upgrades either on CD or on-line.  I did not feel like sitting around with the computer today, because the weather was nice and tomorrow I will have no where to go with my Mountain Bike in the shop for its upgrades. So I took a 42 mile ride and got a little sunburned, but had a great time anyway.  I do not look forward to Friday because I will need to be out of bed by 6:30 to be at the bike shop by 8:00.  I never get up before 9:00.  I received an email today from my Friend Denise she sent me a picture of her new house in Colorado and her new puppies.

Denise's new puppies

Denise's House in Colorado

Computer Crash

My main computer took a dump yesterday and I lost all my cycling records for the first 3 months of the year. I was lucky that I had records for the past 4 years stored on another computer and my music and photographs stored on external drives.  It will take a few late nights to rebuild my computer on a new hard drive.  I did manage to get out on a bike ride today.  Friday I will be getting rebuilt derailers and new rear breaks, so I will have to ride like crazy the next three days to keep to my schedule.

A trail near Burlingame

It was a bit warm today wish I had shorts on

Is Spring Here?

Five good riding days in a row, I wonder if the rain is over?

Nice day for a ride

The weather is somewhat better.

I was only able to ride sixteen days during the month of March.  However I did manage to ride 650 miles total for the month, which met my new years goal of 600 miles in March.  So far this year I have ridden 2,193.32 miles if I continue at this rate I will have between 8,000 and 9,000 miles for the year.  I will have to start increasing either the distance I ride or the number of days I ride each month because I would like to have another 10,000 mile year.  I saw Rebecca and Jane twice last week at Boardsports School at Coyote Point.  They where getting ready for the upcoming windsurfing and kite boarding season.  I missed both of them over the winter.  During some of the down time last month I updated my drivers license and ordered some custom breaks for the mountain bike, because if its age I have to special order or have newer parts modified.  Its a pain in the ass, but I really do not want to try to duplicate the old bike.   Hope I can save enough money so that I can get new front and rear derailers before summer.  After the update to the breaks and derailers I should not need any additional parts.