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Keep riding
October 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Keep riding
I’ve learned a few lessons in dealing with weather forecasts this summer and fall. Deciding on whether or not to ride my bike used to come down to the hour-by-hour forecast on weather.com; is it raining now, and will it be raining around 6pm. This approach didn’t prove very useful through the relative drought of a summer. Yes, I am from the desert of Idaho, and even I think it was strangely dry. Too many people say the weather was crappy for all of June. It was not! It was perfect! It was often cloudy, but it was nice and cool and it only rained like one day!
Anyways I’ll be sucking it up and riding my fendered mountain bike in the rain, because although I live just under a mile from BC, the shuttle bus in the evening takes longer than walking. It has been months since I’ve ridden in a motor vehicle (other than the occasional bus, and my car to go grocery shopping on Sundays) and I couldn’t be happier. And I’m looking forward to the challenge of bike commuting in the winter. Knowing that even the best cyclists, riding in the bike lanes, can be struck by otherwise considerate motorists, makes me happy that I don’t have to use heavily trafficked roads. Other than Beacon near the reservoir, which has a sweet buffer layer along most of it.
