My Old Road Bike

Old road bike with new moustache handle bar

Sore butt, wrist, neck, and back. It must only be that I ridden a regular road bike this past weekend. Yup, that's what happened. I upgraded my old road bike from college with a new moustache bar and seat.

The reason for this madness is that when hauling my kids around, in the child trailer, it's hard to stop and go when coming to a complete stop on a busy intersection on the trail. Hopefully, with riding a regular road bike I can do a track stand as the cars go by and not have to unclip from my pedals.

The plan worked. I can come to a full stop, track stand and them go. The down sides are that the familiar aches and pains that come with riding a regular road bike are back. These things I can live with, since it's nothing new to me. It will only be once a day a week, just for hauling kids. The other problem is that normal road cycling shoes are good for cycling, not good for walking around in. I'll have to find some pedals that my mountain bike shoes would fit in.

The moustache bar gave me more leverage in towing something heavy. Not as many hand positions as the normal noodle handle bar. I still like them though.

After every heavy down pour there is always the chance of trees uprooting due to soggy ground. This is what happened to this tree, across the the trail.

It was a very nice sunny day. A bit cool temperature but still nice.

"Than" with his silver Baron lowracer. Notice the homemade storage above his rear tire.

On the trail we saw a caravan of 8 trikes and 1 tandem trike. "Than" was in the group.  Also in the group was Larry Varney, a recumbent cyclist well known in the Recumbent websites for his reports and critiques on trikes and other recumbents.