Momentum

mo·men·tum

noun /mōˈmentəm/  /mə-/ 
momenta, plural

  1. The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity
  2. The impetus gained by a moving object
    • the vehicle gained momentum as the road dipped
  3. The impetus and driving force gained by the development of a process or course of events
    • the investigation gathered momentum in the spring

This has been a very tough cycling season for me so far. I’m far an away a commuting cyclist, but it’s been difficult to get much saddle time this year. Many factors have contributed to low mileage (I still feel funny saying/writing mileage when we use kilometres. Kilometreage sounds just plain weird).

  • Late spring
  • Crappy weather in the spring
  • Work travel & commitments
  • An early summer cold

Today was the first day in weeks I was able to ride to work. It felt great. I hope to keep up the momentum and ride whenever I can. July and August are usually the best months traffic wise with school out and lots of folks on vacation.

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Weehoo

I saw this rig at a Canada Day event. Looks almost like a recumbent. I wonder how it rides.

The attachment system looks like it would suffer from the same problems as the Trail-a-bike we use. I find it a little hard to control the bike moving at slower speeds. As my stokid gets more confident on the back, he seems to want to shift around more and more, making it tough to steer. He’s also a speed demon, and always wants to pedal down the hills when I want to either coast or use the brakes to modulate our speed!

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Richmond Hill Shifts Gears

Bike boxes have been popping up at Libraries and Community Centres around town.

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Nearing Completion

News from Rawland Cycles this week.  The frames look like they’ve got their paint and clearcoat done.  I guess I need to start thinking about getting some parts together!

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Back from the ashes

The web host crashed and burned and took all my data with it.  Of course I didn’t have a backup because the webhost said they did such a good job of maintaining backup files…  At any rate, live and learn.  I feel worse for Brother Dave as he was generating some traffic from his gaming blog. 

I’ll likely be monkeying around with the site layout, and repopulating some of the links as I have time.

Monkeymartian rides again!

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