Project Suburban: Part Deux

Another green Schwinn Suburban has made it's way into my garage. However this time I'm not the instigator. My Mom retired from work about a year ago and she's been saying for a while that she would like to be able to ride her bike to the library. Like most people, she's also got a list of reasons why she can't ride to the library. Last week Nancy went out to lunch with mom and the subject of the bike came up again. Never one to accept excuses Nancy had the car backed out of the garage and they had the bike down from the rafters before Mom knew what hit her. They loaded it in the back of our Jetta and it's now in my garage. I took a few before pictures, but honestly this bike's in a whole lot better shape than Dad's was when I started it. The serial number on this one indicates that it was manufactured in December of 1971. I thought for sure that this bike was newer than Dad's, but I guess that shows what I know.







But since I won't be riding this, I think I might do a little more than just clean it up. I'm going to look into doing some upgrading while I'm at it. Should be another fun project.

Book tag

Mr. Bill tagged me a few days ago, pulling me out of my blog apathy. Books, there's something I can talk about. The whole "find the book closest to you" part was a little touchy. We have a lot of books in the house.

So when faced with the decision of "which is nearest to me" I decided to be a little less literal and pick the book I'm currently reading: Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride by Peter Zheutlin. Ok so page 123, fifth sentence and the next three are:

"Members of the club met her at Littleton. 'Miss Londonderry when she was seen by a News representative last night was found to be a young lady who looked as she might be an athlete, with coal black eyes, and a face tanned brown as a nut,' reported the Denver Daily News. In Denver, Annie stayed at the Glenarm Hotel for nearly a week."

Sort of reminds me of the Loony Toon where Daffy Duck is pretending to be Sherlock Holmes in the case of the Shropshire Slasher. "I'm brown as a nut and fit as a lass!" You're never too old for the Loony Toons.

Date: June 10
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 94
Year to date mileage: 1637

Date: June 11
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 112
Year to date mileage: 1655

Date: June 12
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 138
Year to date mileage: 1681

Date: June 13
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 156
Year to date mileage: 1699

Date: June 16
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 180
Year to date mileage: 1723

Date: June 16
Mileage: 6
Ride type/Bike: Family/Suburban
June mileage: 186
Year to date mileage: 1729

Twice as corny

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes. The most common question seems to be, "How old are you?" I went out for a couple beers after work on Thursday with some co-workers. Two of the co-workers in question were interns with our company last summer, and have just started full time after graduating college. I was talking with them and another guy closer to my age. Somehow we got on the subject of speedskating, and my older colleague was talking about Eric Heiden in the 1980 Olympics. He said to Intern Bob, "But that was before you were born."

I said, "Bob would have been a youngster then, wouldn't he?"

Bob said, "I was born in 1985."

I got my driver's license in 1985.




Date: May 22
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
May mileage: 219
Year to date mileage: 1547

Date: June 2
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 24
Year to date mileage: 1567

Date: June 3
Mileage: 20
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 44
Year to date mileage: 1587

Date: June 6
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
June mileage: 68
Year to date mileage: 1611

Go shorty, it's your birthday

Except it actually is my birthday.  VelociNancy was a dear and woke up early to please me, and made eggs bacon and toast for breakfast.  Yum.  She has also been bugging me for the last few days about what I would like for my birthday.  I find myself somewhat stumped.  Sure, there's lots of stuff I'd like.  There's also lots of stuff I probably need.  But it seems to miss the point of a birthday present if somebody buys you something you need.  "Happy birthday, smoke up Johnny."  Birthday presents always seem like it should be something you want, but would never buy for yourself.

 

Fortunately, the internet provided me an idea for a worthy birthday gift for myself:  A Gold Plated Bicycle for only £9,500 (approximately $18,726.19 American).

 

The bike started from a Charge Plug, a model that common London cycle couriers have, which starts at some £399.

It was then stripped, polished, plated in copper and then finished in 24ct gold.

The chain, seat and bars have been replaced with white counterparts.

This model is especially hard to ride since they don't freewheel, which means that the pedals keep on turning as long as the bicycle does.

However, bicycles over £4,000 cannot be insured, so it comes with optional extra of its own bodyguard, which will stand by the bike whenever it is left in public.

 

It's own bodyguard!  How fabulous.  That's one less U lock I need to carry.  Happy birthday to me indeed!

Idaho stop

For the record, I like Phyllis Kahn.  Not due to any legislative acumen or anything like that, but purely based on entertainment value.  She drives most of the local columnists and other folks who are in the know, politically, utterly batty.  Mainly because she seems to be utterly batty.  But watching people who care about such things get so worked into a tizzy over Phyllis' every goofy action is high entertainment indeed.

 

Imagine my surprise when I found that Phyllis has done something I agree with, and wholeheartedly support!  Phyllis, working with Jim Carlson, wants to make it legal for bikes to treat stop signs like yield signs, and stop lights like stop signs.  A similar law is currently in place in Idaho and from all accounts works just fine.  When I visited Boise last summer I saw tons of bikes.  I wasn't in Boise long enough to form a truly informed opinion, but there didn't seem to be a lot of traffic conflicts between bikes and cars.  Had I ridden there I might have felt different. 

 

I've long felt that the rules of the road are currently written exclusively with cars in mind, and then as an afterthought somebody tacked on a clause that says "Oh yeah, this applies to bikes too."  The reality is that bikes and cars are different types of vehicles and while most of the driving statutes work for both, not all do.  And through pure and simple oversight, the playing field is tilted in the favor of cars.  So this simple change would be a big win for the Minnesota cycling community.  Throw in a nice Vulnerable Road Users ruling and this might be a dang nice place to ride.  Not that it's not pretty good already.

 

Oh, the Strib has an online poll asking whether you think this is a good idea or not:

 

Star Tribune Poll

 

I'll give you a hint:  It's a good idea.  At the time of this writing, people not in favor of the change were leading 61% to 38%.  Vote early, vote often.

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No respect for cyclists

Even David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, doesn't get any respect when he does something stupid on his bike:

 

"You drank too much and fell off your bike" could be the title of a drawing by David Shrigley. But in this case, it actually happened to me after meeting Shrigley for dinner and drinks. While riding home, C and I were briefly separated. Upon reuniting, my tire slipped on the cobblestones of West 14th St., and I remember lying in the street, looking at oncoming headlights and rolling towards the curb so they wouldn't run me over. Two cops approached and looked down at me. "Have you been drinking?" they asked. Probably a typical question in that neighborhood at that time of night. "Yes, I've had a few drinks," I replied. "But I'm hurt." I managed to get up by myself and retrieve my bike (no help from the NYPD, though one of them asked if I was David Byrne) and it wasn't until later, when I was in bed, that the pain made itself truly known. I wondered how I would ever even get out of bed. The next day I went to the hospital and x-rays revealed two broken ribs — numbers 3 and 5, way up high. They're healing now, little by little, and I was told that in 3 weeks I should be OK.

 

Ouch.  In other news, VelociNancy and I completed the 3 Speed Tour in grand style and had grand fun doing it.  I'm hoping to write up a proper post this weekend, with glossy pictures and 3 part harmonies and all that.  For now, you can check out some of the pictures I took over the weekend along with pics from other flickr users in the 3 speed pool I started.  Apparently 85 miles of riding a 3 speed at low speed was just the thing for my pulled groin muscle.  It was noticeably sore during the frequent mount and dismount procedure of the 3 speed tour, but this week I've commuted 3 days in a row and it's felt better than it has in a long time.

 

Date:  May 17-18

Distance:  85

Ride Type/Bike:  3 Speed Tour/Robin Hood Sports

Month to Date mileage:  153

Year to Date mileage:  1477

 

Date:  May 20

Distance:  26

Ride Type/Bike:  Commute/Kuwahara

Month to Date mileage:  179

Year to Date mileage:  1503

 

Date:  May 21

Distance:  20

Ride Type/Bike:  Commute/Kuwahara

Month to Date mileage:  199

Year to Date mileage:  1523

Bike to Work Day bikes

Here are some random pictures of cool bikes I saw on Bike to Work day.
First, an Electra that One on One had on display:

And a nice looking Swobo, also from One on One:

I saw several Big Dummies out and about. This one was pulling double duty as a display table:

A bitchin' old Schwinn, tilted at an unflattering angle on the rack:

This lime green Mercer was an eye catcher:

Another snappy vintage Schwinn:

A nice old Raleigh:

I was so taken aback by the simplicity of this rack, I didn't even notice what kind of bike it is:

My coworker Charlie's bike. The blue one with the beat up Brooks saddle. Not the one that looks like it has a studded dildo for a downtube:

A nice old Wyoming:

The oldest bike I saw all day, a vintage Raleigh. All ready for the 3 speed tour:

Bike to Work Day Recap

Bike to work day for 2008 is in the books. And from my perspective, it was great. I got to see a lot of people I know and also meet some people I didn't know. I also saw a lot more people biking to work that I knew were newbies. I'm cynical enough to know that once either gas prices go down, we get used to the higher prices, or the weather turns cold most of them will go back to driving. But some will keep at it, future junkies like the rest of us.

I was particularly excited by the turnout from my coworkers. My company has been a top level sponsor for the event for the last few years, and folks from work have lead most of the Commuter Pods or whatever they call them year after year. But it's always been the same old folks, the ones we don't need to reach out to. But this year, a guy I've worked with for over 10 years and has never ridden a bicycle to work rode on Monday. He made the complete rookie mistake of getting his pants caught in his chain. Those khakis may never come clean. But here he is on Wednesday, showing how a simple rubber band can make all the difference:

And today he applied for underground bike parking and was talking about discontinuing his bus pass for the summer. Another coworker who has talked about biking to work for years but never has called me yesterday. He said, "This year, I'm going to do it. Once I cross the Mendota Bridge how do I get to Minnehaha Park?" He managed to follow my directions and was part of the Commuter Convoy this morning.

Another sign that things were going well at work is the bike rack. In all my years of commuting, I have never seen the underground rack area so packed with bikes. Including previous bike to work days. I had to lean my bike against the wall because there was literally not a single place at the racks to squeeze it in.


And on the way in we saw Mayor Rybak on the Greenway, pulling in to the soon to open Freewheel Bike Center. And here he is later downtown. I think it really helps to have a mayor who rides. He gets it. Here he is, fresh off the bike going to the registration table:

And what does RT ride? A Trek. With a rack, lights and fenders. No trailer queen.


We had possibly the youngest rider in our convoy this morning. She needed a fruit bar and a juice box to fuel up. Riding on the back of dad's bike is hard work.


So in short, I thought this was one of the more well run and enjoyable Bike to Work days I've participated in. Maybe I'm just feeling optimistic. But I thought it was a well done event.


Date: May 14
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
May mileage: 68
Year to date mileage: 1392

Show of Hands

It was an exciting day here at Velocipete World Headquarters. It was my first commute since I decided to take time off to heal from a rabid spider bite on my penis. And all in all, the commute went well. However, due to lots of other activity throughout the day I'm going to play it safe and skip tomorrow's commute. I mean, skip biking. If I could figure out a way to skip commuting entirely that would be another story. It's unfortunate, because today was the kick off for Bike to Work Week. Normally here at VPWHQ every week is bike to work week, but this is a time for the rest of you slackers out there to give it a whirl. I'm sure there's no connection to the nearly $4 per gallon gas prices, but the bike rack in our building was more full than I've ever seen it today. Yay Bike to Work Week.

Speaking of, this morning I hoofed it over to the downtown Mpls. library to see the conclusion of the Great Commuter Challenge. The illustrious Mayor Rybak managed to win the race on his bicycle. He's probably been getting lots of practice biking after losing his drivers license. County Commissioner Toni Carter came in second through a combination of walking and transit. Roadguy placed third. I swear this thing has to be rigged. Though Rybak was breathing pretty heavily when he came around to shake my hand. You can read more about the "race" from Roadguy.

For what I believe will be the fourth year I'll be leading a Commuter Convoy on Bike To Work Day, which is this Wednesday. Meet at the pavilion in Minnehaha Park if you want to ride to work with me. If you want to ride to work with someone who's not me, there are dozens of routes listed on the Bike to Work Commuter Convoy page. If you're reading the blog and plan to ride with me, leave a comment or shoot me an email to let me know.

This weekend The Mrs. and I will be heading south to participate in the 3 Speed Tour. The Mrs. asked me earlier this week who else I knew who was going, and I shrugged my shoulders. This bought me an eye roll and a "What have you gotten me into?" comment. So if you're reading this and also heading down, leave a comment or shoot me an email. My gmail address is "frosti". I'm sure you can figure out the formatting from there.

Date: May 8
Mileage: 2
Ride type/Bike: School Escort/Robin Hood
May mileage: 26
Year to date mileage: 1350

Date: May 12
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
May mileage: 44
Year to date mileage: 1368

Niblets and giblets (or, I've got Corn in my pants!)

I've had a few days off the bike and the spider-borne rabies seems to be healing. It's feeling better, for what it's worth. With Bike to Work day and the 3-speed tour both coming up in a couple of weeks I think I'm going to continue to take it easy. One observation I've had during my convalescence is that it's difficult to ice down the innermost portion of one's thigh without icing down at least one of one's yarbles. At least if one happens to be of the male persuasion. Brrrr.

On a seemingly unrelated note, we have a 7 year old half beagle half basset hound named Bailey. Bailey is a super nice dog and well behaved in all aspects where food is not involved. When food enters the picture, all bets are off. During the last month or so we've had several familial injuries that required ice packs. Somehow during this period a bag of Green Giant corn niblets has been pressed into service as an ice pack. We had decided long ago that this bag of niblets would never be consumed by us as it's spent too much time out of the freezer. This week I reinforced the notion that the corn was no longer fit for consumption by keeping the corn stuffed near my nethers on a regular basis. Here's where the dog and the injury come together, in comic fashion. After work today I applied the corn to the tender portion of my anatomy before taking the girls to karate. Apparently in our rush to get out the door I forgot to put the corn back into the freezer. Upon our return home I found an empty bag and a fat dog. She ate the entire thing, not one stray niblet was found. I think I'm going to have to switch to green beans.

Injury time out

I've been riding injured for the last month or two, and it's bugging the crap out of me. Sometime in late February or early March, right after I added the rear basket to my winter bike I managed to hurt myself. I know it was after the big basket, because that was the cause of the injury. While mounting the bike one morning I swung my leg over the saddle and top tube and hit the basket with my foot. To be sure I didn't hit the basket again, I really raised my leg up high on the next attempt. And something in my leg/groin area went "Ouch!" It was a minor twinge and I didn't think anything of it at the time. But here it is May 3, I haven't ridden the winter bike in over a month and it's still bugging me.

When I first started to notice it, I thought there was something wrong with my hip. The outside of the hip socket is where I started to notice some discomfort. In retrospect it is probably because the muscle on the inside of my thigh isn't working as hard as it should and that puts additional pressure on that part of the joint. It never bothers me while I'm on the bike, only while walking. But it was getting worse. The hypochondriac in me started to worry about hip replacement (I'm not even 40!). I hobbled around for the better part of 6 weeks, feeling it slowly get worse. Last week I would sometimes wake up when rolling over in bed because of the discomfort. I hesitate to call it pain, because there are so many people out there with so much worse pain to live with. But I'm a heavy sleeper so if something is waking me up it causes me to pause.

After talking with my wife, who is more of an athlete than I am, I'm pretty sure it's a groin pull. So I'm going to start in with the R.I.C.E. plan, including taking 3 days off the bike (yesterday, today and tomorrow). Maybe Monday too, we'll see. This must mean I'm an athlete. Either that or I'm getting old. Probably the latter.

Date: April 30
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 445
Year to date mileage: 1324

Date: May 1
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 24
Year to date mileage: 1348

Go ahead, you've earned it

Pondering a new bike purchase? Go ahead. You've earned it. Don't worry if your spouse/significant other will shout "You don't need another bike!" Why? The world is going to end, and soon. CERN has been working on the large Hadron Collider for years, and it's set to go online this summer. There have been stories lately in the media about the potential for this thing to create black holes that could swallow the earth. "Or it could spit out something called a 'strangelet' that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called 'strange matter.'” according to an article in The New York Times. A far cry from The Weekly World News, I assure you. But then, as if black holes weren't scary enough, the Times throws this little gem in at the end of the story:

Dr. Arkani-Hamed said that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, "the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”

So go ahead, buy that bike. Cash in that 401(k). Have another helping of pastry. Live every day as if it were your last. This summer, there be dragons.

The Fourth Estate can shove it

From Wikipedia: The term Fourth Estate refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century.

Local members of The Fourth Estate are airing a piece tonight about cyclists who break the law. There's a preview on their webpage, and the full thing will air tonight at 10:00 locally on channel 5. It looks like the station is taking some major flack over the piece. From their website:

The story hasn't even aired yet on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, but from the stream of e-mails we've received, it's clear the issue of cyclists and motorists sharing the road is a hot button topic.

Duh. Way to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution, KSTP. Tip o' the hat to Bill for the head's up on the story and also the email he sent to the station.

Date: April 26
Mileage: 5
Ride type/Bike: Errand/Suburban
April mileage: 377
Year to date mileage: 1256

Date: April 28
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 395
Year to date mileage: 1274

Date: April 29
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 421
Year to date mileage: 1300

Bike in, bike out

I bought another bike today. An old Coast King cruiser from the mid-60s. It's a real basket case and is going to need a lot of work. I don't need another bike. Via email the seller and I had agreed to a price that was about 1/3 of his original asking price. When I got there and looked at it, I tried to walk away from the deal because it was in rougher shape than I originally realized. I wasn't pushing for a better deal, but he offered and I couldn't say no.

Anybody want to buy my Montgomery Ward Hawthorne? I don't need two single speed cruisers. It rides decent, but not great. The rear hub needs fresh lube, and so does the bottom bracket. I did repack the front hub a year or so ago, but didn't get any further. Coaster brake works well. The seat sags, as one of the supports underneath is broken. Below are a few pictures. Make me an offer. frosti AT gmail DOT com





Date: April 25
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 372
Year to date mileage: 1251

Prayer, the last refuge of a scoundrel

"Rocky Twyman says nothing else has worked, so he's urging motorists to pray for lower gasoline prices when they fuel up.
Twyman says he and his fellow volunteers at a church soup kitchen launched "Pray at the Pump" today at a gas station in Washington D.C.
After fueling up their cars, Twyman says they bowed their heads and asked God for cheaper gas.
There was no immediate answer, but he says other motorists joined in and the service station owner didn't run them off.
Twyman says that if God brought down the walls of Jericho when the ancient Hebrews prayed, then divine intervention can bring down gas prices too."

 

Story link.

Date:  April 22

Mileage:  18

Ride type/bike:  Commute/Kuwahara

March mileage:  336

Year to date mileage:  1207

 

Date:  April 23

Mileage:  26

Ride type/bike:  Commute/Kuwahara

March mileage:  354

Year to date mileage:  1233

Dinner plans

We went to dinner with friends from out of town and friends from in town Saturday night. Great meal, great entertainment and great fun. Then back to the house afterward for drinks and a couple episodes of Firefly starring YoSaffBridge.










I daresay, a good time was had by all.

Wormslayer

I headed out for the weekly Hiawatha ride this morning in a light drizzle. As I rode up Highway 13 I was amazed at the number of worms on the shoulder. Apparently we got more rain last night than I thought. We made a couple of coffee stops and escorted Ray home. I bought a water bottle cage for the Kuwahara and headed home myself. This afternoon I was adjusting a fender on the bike that was rubbing, and found that the bike was littered with worm corpses. It was kinda disgusting.

One on the quick release and one in the sprockets (you can't see it well because it's covered in chain lube)

The front fender:

The rear fender:

The rear quick release:

Rear wheel:


Another one covered in chain lube, this time on the front sprocket:

And finally, the crank:



Date: April 9
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 145
Year to date mileage: 1024

Date: April 10
Mileage: 12
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 157
Year to date mileage: 1036

Date: April 14
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 181
Year to date mileage: 1060

Date: April 15
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 207
Year to date mileage: 1086

Date: April 15
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 233
Year to date mileage: 1112

Date: April 16
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 259
Year to date mileage: 1138

Date: April 17
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 285
Year to date mileage: 1164

Date: April 18
Mileage: 26
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 311
Year to date mileage: 1190

Date: April 19
Mileage: 25
Ride type/Bike: Hiawatha/Kuwahara
April mileage: 336
Year to date mileage: 1215

Peach pie, oh my

I had a lovely slice of peach pie on the Hiawatha ride Saturday morning. I'm not kidding, probably the best peach pie I've ever had. Check out Firefly Bistro if you're in the neighborhood. They've got great pie, and slices of cake big enough to choke a lunatic.

I broke the Suburban out of mothballs for the ride on Saturday, as I still had some cookies to deliver and needed the jumbo basket. Snakey took a picture of me arriving. I was clearly amused by something he or Ray said. My wife said she likes this picture of me.

I've been riding the newly built Kuwahara since the snow was gone, and I'm really digging the way it rides. I'm still dialing in the little things like seat and handlebar height, but I'm amazed at how well it rides right from the get go. I'm a half-assed bike mechanic and was pleasantly surprised by how well the bizarro component mixture works. It's not perfect, but much better than I was expecting. When mixing newer Shimano and vintage Suntour you never know what's going to work and what's not, but shifting in friction mode will cover a lot of sins. I am going to have to replace the rear Suntour AR derailleur, as it doesn't seem to have enough reach to get to the largest and smallest rear cogs. So I'm riding the bike as a 12 speed currently. Once I get the derailleur figured out it will be a 16 speed. No rush.


Date: April 4
Mileage: 24
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 60
Year to date mileage: 939

Date: April 5
Mileage: 23
Ride type/Bike: Hiawatha/Suburban
April mileage: 83
Year to date mileage: 962

Date: April 7
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 101
Year to date mileage: 980

Date: April 8
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
April mileage: 119
Year to date mileage: 998

Bipolar weather

The weather has been nothing but strange here in MSP. Keeps us on our toes, I guess.

Monday's commute:


Tuesday's commute:



The funny thing is, they were both enjoyable. Monday I had a gusty wind at my back and I was flying through the snow and slush as fast as I would have on dry pavement. Tuesday was enjoyable just because it was such a beautiful day, made even more so by the contrast to the previous day.

I rode sans studs today for the first time since November. It was awesome. Here's a preview of what I rode from my strangely lit basement workshop:


Date: March 29
Mileage: 29
Ride type/Bike: Hiawatha/Triumph
March mileage: 313
Year to date mileage: 861

Date: March 31
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Triumph
March mileage: 331
Year to date mileage: 879

Date: April 1
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Triumph
March mileage: 349
Year to date mileage: 897

Date: April 2
Mileage: 18
Ride type/Bike: Commute/Kuwahara
March mileage: 367
Year to date mileage: 915