Tweed Ride?

2nd annual Iowa City Tweed Ride.  Okay, basic summary:

Enjoyable meet and greet with old bicycles at the beginning, dissolves rapidly into biking 2 miles to a bar, then to a park (for more alcohol), to another bar etc.  So actually not much of a ride.  I bailed out right at the point that intoxicated riders began to find it funny to walk around in their undergarments.

I mean I don't have a problem with a pint or two of a stout, I mean liquid carbs? Yes. But decorum and excess and all that.

Rode to a nice used book store. Riding in Iowa City is so fun. Traffic is calm and always neat places to ride.

I eventually finagled the pigeon back into the car and drove the hour or so back home. Having to basically re-tweak the front rod brakes every time the front wheel is removed to fit the thing in the car, that's a real hassle. If it wasn't 50 miles down and back on shoulderless 55mph byways I would've just rode it.

Then the next day I took the Pigeon and rode 40 miles out into the country. Much more enjoyable. I need to start packing actual nutrition, as I got a little ragged at the end.

met an otter at his creek. 

Still around

I kind of switched over to using film cameras again, and the downside of that is, that I barely managed to use up a single roll of film in three months- and then because I want to bundle development and scan to CD costs together... etc.  

Good stuff:   Another new bike, details soon.  The weather is now warm enough to ride in, without worrying about sweating then freezing to death. Layer management is such a pain.  My commuting was hurt by the excessively snowy winter and lethargy, but in the past month, I've managed lots of bike commuting and two 40 mile rides.  Both of which were informative in the 'what did we learn' sort of way.  

More regular type updates and some reviews soon!