Re: Cycling Clothes

On Fri, 16 May 2025 16:51:38 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

All I plan to attend is the Historical Tour tomorrow at one
or three in the afternoon.  My "wheelchair bike" (the Trek
Pure step-through that I bought after discovering the hard
way that I had come in with snow stuck to my boots) is
appropriate for a two-mile ride with a dozen or two stops.

I forgot a few things about the wheelchair bike:

Since one can't apply any force to the pedals, it wobbles
wildly before getting up steerageway.  This wasn't any
problem when I used it to fetch festival food for our lunch
today, but was a big problem when stops were just far enough
apart that it wasn't reasonable to walk.

The bike is hard to pedal, because one must sit bolt
upright.  Not a problem when cruising slowly, using bottom
gear on slopes I'm unaware of when riding my Fuji, but a big
problem when trying to match someone else's pace.

You don't steer a flatfoot, you aim it.  Not a problem on
the street, but a real bummer when making hairpin turns on
sidewalks.

As for the waist pack:  it fell off while I was standing in
grass to get closer to the speaker.  Stayed hooked for the
rest of the trip, though.  (Hey!  I've got an excuse to buy
a new bag!)

And today, I realized that my jersey doesn't *look* like a
jersey, and wore it to fetch festival food after hastily
transferring stuff from my skirt pockets to my wallet and
jersey pockets.

By good luck I'd absent-mindedly put on black tights instead
of silk long johns, so all I had to do was peel off shirt,
skirt, and underdress and put on my jersey.

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Joy Beeson
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