Having spent the past week crawling from bed to panadol and back to bed I am very grateful to be back on my feet (more or less) and back on my bike! What makes this even better is that just when the long-bike was about to fall apart completely my friend brought back the Avanti (The third new bike I've ever owned!) which I'd left with him about 8 months ago.... and (drum roll please assorted happy crickets and birds) The Dry Season appeared this morning as if from nowhere!
What a great day!
So, this afternoon I spent tinkering around with the kids bikes in the back yard, sipping a much longed for cup of coffee and delighting at the prospect of my eldest moving up to a larger frame. A chance encounter with a local bicycle Wizard also helped renew my enthusiasm for fixing stuff! I even dared to think about the forgotten 4 wheeled project bike I'd left squashed between the canoe and the compost bin in the darker regions of the back!
Time to clean out the bike shed and get some wheels on the road.
This evening I even managed to catch up on some of the bicycle blogs and amongst them I found
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Check out: The Bicycle City. Trailer from Greg Sucharew on Vimeo.
Since mobility is a major issue for many people I have been inspired to try and find a solution to the two halves of a 4 wheeled bike in my back yard. Let's hope something good happens with this pile of wasted bike.
There's a lady somewhere in Darwin who has a son with mobility problems who would really love to be able to get out on a bike. I promised her she could have this one if I ever got it going.... It's killing me to think it may never get there.
The 4 wheeled contraption which I hope to resurrect
2 comments:
The dry season appeared with a snap about two weeks ago here in Townsville, and is so welcome after an unseasonably wet summer. It makes riding so much easier, when you don't get mud tracks up your back after every ride!
Hey Theresa,
Congratulations again on your graduation!
The weather may have changed sometime last week here but I was too sick to notice.. Boo hoo.
I absolutely hate it when water/mud sprays up my back! I have put mud guards on most of my bikes and I can highly recommend it! It's amazing how much more comfortable and dryer a ride can be when you have mud guards.
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