Re: Last week

On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:26:16 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 5/28/2025 6:09 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:

Last week left on Wednesday to help my son in Tampa had leg surgery for
chronic compartment syndrome. Drove the 1150 miles had not done that
kind of solo driving in many years. Was hard and hard on back in car
that long.
 
The best part helping my son though was getting to Nashville to see my
friend owns the vintage guitar store. But the cycling down in Tampa is
bad. I could not really get out away enough to do real road ride. I did
my usual power walk and on Monday road around hit neighbor hood loops to
get miles. No traffic memorial day every and was residential but never
went farther than about 2 miles from his house.

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There have been a number of times while on vacation/business trips where
I've substituted a run for a ride due to unfriendly roads.
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Not a fan of Tampa at all. I did like the heat but it was at 6am so not
as bad. Got back today and really Illinois is not such a bad place.

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I've had three trips to floriduh over the past couple of decades - only
one moderately pleasurable cycling experience (rented a mountain bike in
the Miami area and road some kind crappy trails).
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Ironically, the LAB ranks floriduh as 9th in the country:
https://bikeleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BFS_Report_2024-1.pdf
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As far as I can tell, it's mostly due to the number of railtrails (as
"infrastructure") which is rather expansive. The limitation there of
course is that you need to live a reasonable distance from a trail or
you're stuck with driving the to trail or riding through unfriendly
roads (LAB ranks it with the 4th highest cyclist fatality rate in the
country, despite the 6th highest per capita spending)..
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I am
completely wiped out driving 770 miles yesterday and 375 today. I real
bike century would be a piece of cake compared to the distance and
traffic. Atlanta was nuts and Nashville at rush hour. Next time it is
plane and rent a bike. However having your own bike is worth a lot.
Also, the 32 mm tires only need about 65 PSI so my mini leyzine pump
actually works fine. 250 strokes no hard to do and you are fine.

Florida spends a lot of money on MUP trails, and many city bicyclists
carry their bikes to them. FWIW, downtown ST Pete has many street
bicyclists. It's one of the few bigger cities where I've done
significant street riding.

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C'est bon
Soloman