All dressed up and no rain to go
11 July 2012 04:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeSince it had been raining almost all day -- tapering off to little more than a heavy mist, then springing out on you in a sudden fury of stair-rods with only a few sconds' warning -- I naturally dressed up in full waterproofs before setting off for an hour's cycle journey.
By some quirk of the British summer, the rain cleared to bright sunshine within about five seconds of my completing this (lengthy) dressing process; and, although towering purple clouds were visible both behind and before me in the sky along the road, I proceeded to cycle from start to finish in my own personal little travelling spotlight of hot sun, feeling decidedly over-equipped! However, the waterproof overshoes were invaluable given the large number of gigantic puddles through which I still had to travel...
Perhaps this is a good place to note that I managed to reset my cycle computer again while trying to zero the journey time counter; an indication of how long it was since I had last used it is that not only had I forgotten how to work the controls, but that I only had a total of about a hundred miles 'on the clock' since the previous accidental reset. I have now accumulated almost that much again in the course of the few weeks since this happened.
In the process of resetting all the data from the defaults all over again, I discovered (presumably all over again) that I actually appear to have 28-inch wheels on this machine. Given that it's a small frame I'm surprised; it's possible that they are 27-inch with big tyres on.
[Edit: Yes, I see I was marvelling at this fact the last time I managed to reset the wretched cycle computer...)
By some quirk of the British summer, the rain cleared to bright sunshine within about five seconds of my completing this (lengthy) dressing process; and, although towering purple clouds were visible both behind and before me in the sky along the road, I proceeded to cycle from start to finish in my own personal little travelling spotlight of hot sun, feeling decidedly over-equipped! However, the waterproof overshoes were invaluable given the large number of gigantic puddles through which I still had to travel...
Perhaps this is a good place to note that I managed to reset my cycle computer again while trying to zero the journey time counter; an indication of how long it was since I had last used it is that not only had I forgotten how to work the controls, but that I only had a total of about a hundred miles 'on the clock' since the previous accidental reset. I have now accumulated almost that much again in the course of the few weeks since this happened.
In the process of resetting all the data from the defaults all over again, I discovered (presumably all over again) that I actually appear to have 28-inch wheels on this machine. Given that it's a small frame I'm surprised; it's possible that they are 27-inch with big tyres on.
[Edit: Yes, I see I was marvelling at this fact the last time I managed to reset the wretched cycle computer...)