First bike ride achieved
May. 4th, 2024 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heleninwalesBefore the pandemic, I used to cycle to the Quaker meeting. It's a nice distance to cycle and there's a cycle path all the way. There's no need to go on roads at all. The village hall is about 2 miles away, so though walkable, it would take rather a long time, especially coming home when I want to get back quickly to have lunch. But two miles on the bike is nothing. However, covid meant that we had a couple of years with no face-to-face meetings so I would just cycle up and down the Mawddach Trail for exercise when it was fine.
We did start meeting in the village hall again, but for a while I used to take the laptop so anyone who didn't want to (or couldn't) attend in person could join us via Zoom. (The village hall has wifi.) I wasn't going to cycle with a laptop in a backpack so I completely got out of the habit of travelling to Meeting by bike.
As it happens, I'd already decided that now the seemingly endless rain has finally stopped, I ought to get the bike checked over and ready to ride. I'd even decided that tomorrow was the ideal day to resume the habit of cycling to Meeting, and had pumped up the tyres and applied oil to the relevant moving parts. That was just as well because as I previously posted, the car is out of action until it's been into the garage for repair.
So today I did a little test ride and a) I can still remember how to ride a bike and b) the bike seemed fine. It must be well over 20 years old now, but it's only been lightly used because I'm a fair weather cyclist. The forecast says it should actually be sunny, so it should be a nice ride there and back.
We did start meeting in the village hall again, but for a while I used to take the laptop so anyone who didn't want to (or couldn't) attend in person could join us via Zoom. (The village hall has wifi.) I wasn't going to cycle with a laptop in a backpack so I completely got out of the habit of travelling to Meeting by bike.
As it happens, I'd already decided that now the seemingly endless rain has finally stopped, I ought to get the bike checked over and ready to ride. I'd even decided that tomorrow was the ideal day to resume the habit of cycling to Meeting, and had pumped up the tyres and applied oil to the relevant moving parts. That was just as well because as I previously posted, the car is out of action until it's been into the garage for repair.
So today I did a little test ride and a) I can still remember how to ride a bike and b) the bike seemed fine. It must be well over 20 years old now, but it's only been lightly used because I'm a fair weather cyclist. The forecast says it should actually be sunny, so it should be a nice ride there and back.
