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Surf Check and Some News

Made it out for a bit this morning to run some errands, 24hr grocery stores hooray, and cruise by the beach.

Looks like I am going to be getting some work done today, pretty small surf, and yes the fog is looming just off shore.

On the news front, the niner had up for sale, then not, is up for sale again.  You can see it here.  I also have plenty of the silver shifter bump caps, here.  These and a few other items will be starting to sill up my shop/garage sale pages in the coming week.  I have 4 bike projects for friends in the works with more to come, this should help spice up the content around here in the next couple of weeks too.

Happy Monday, be sure to ride this week!

Happy Birthday and of Course, a Surf Check

Thank You for taking a look!

I have made it a year now today, and without the encouragement of you all looking regularly it would not be so much fun.  I have learned a bunch, met some new people and achieved some of my goals.  The foremost, using the tools at my disposal to encourage you to get outside, ride your bike, escape the inertia of using your car to get around and play a bit.  It appears to be working on that front.  The rest has some room for growth, but that will come.

Back to the photo stuff.  I really have enjoyed the GoPro for its ease of use and angle of view.  The thing is that I have been feeling a bit lazy with respect to my creativity.  The creative outlet fuels the rest of the passion to keep this going.  I will be relying less on the GoPro an da bit mor eon my other cameras from here on out.  With darkness approaching I decided it was high time to teach myself the art of long exposure night shooting.  Not as tricky as I thought for my first stab at it.

The shots take a little more setup and gear hauling.  The results are well worth the effort.  This was the most fun I have had shooting in a while.

Thank you again for your readership, and as we roll into the fall and winter do not forget, PLAY OUTSIDE!!

Happy Friday.

 

Load Testing

Today was another fantastic day to be out on the bike gathering the groceries for the week

ide blue skies to the east with the fog looming just offshore behind me.  THe high sweeping clouds made the blue skies pop, this one made me think of the swallows that will be heading back south pretty soon.

Enough day dreaming, and time for the business end of the trip.  Two stops totaling, 1 gal milk, 1 gallon Tangerine Juice, 3 quarts yogurt, boxes of cereal and crackers, more juice, bananas, and some how squeezing the camera gear back in the bags.  One trick I use is to take the bags of stuff out of the boxes, getting every little bit I can out of the hauling capacity.

Fully loaded with over 30 lbs of stuff I decided to head uphill to push the bike and myself a bit.  The handling climbing up was very precise, not slow speed wobbles all over the road, even mashing a 36/30 low gear.  The views were fantastic once above the fog, the bank looming just off the beach, with the channel islands poking out the top miles away.  This shot diving into one of my favorite turns captured it best.

 

New Sunday Standard

Adding a twist to the regular Sunday ride we have been heading over to the playground as a family before keep on riding to the market.

Then it is time for me to keep on keepin on for the next 10 miles to get the veggies.  Today was another incredible day to be outside.

This area of southern California  is really is a wonderful place to ride and call home.

While setting up for some pictures came across one of my pet peeves.  I will never fully understand why changing a tube is so intense that you throw the dead tube off on the side of the road. 

I usually pick them up, take them home and patch them.  While a free tube is a nice bonus, they are usually 23mm tubes, and do not see much use in my stable.  have a few ideas on how to curb this kind of waste, but implementation is going to be a bit of a process.