Today's Trike Tracking via APRS and Ham Radio
We decided to ride today, at least for the usual short run to the Post Office. We're going crazy trying to get the house upgrades done: Paint, new laminate flooring in dining room, living room, and master bedroom, exterior trim and paint. Among others.
It was wonderfully cloudy and noticeably cooler today, with only a few minutes of sunshine trying to peek through and cook us.
After returning to the Exploder we decided to deliver 3 bags of "Goodwill Surplus" to the local Talking Talons thrift store. On the way down North 14 I noticed a cyclist stopped on the bike trail flipping his bike upside down, obviously with a flat tire. On the way back from the thrift store, we saw the same luckless cyclist pushing his bike along, apparently not having been able to repair his flat.
We stopped and asked if we could help, since we carry flat fixing equipment in OUR bike bags... He turned out to be a German Foreign Exchange Student riding his Uncle's bike. His English was a bit mushy but much better than my command of Deutsche :O)
When we pulled the tube from his tire and wheel, we found it was full of so called flat retardant tire sealant...... and leaking from several small holes up and down the tube. He had no spare tube so we decided there wasn't much hope for the tube since all the holes were bleeding tire goo without self-sealing themselves. So we offered to load his bike in the back and deliver him back to his Uncle's house.
He asked "Are you Sure??" As though it was unusual for someone to offer a ride to a stranger. We tried to assure him we'd be happy to; that others had done it for us, etc, etc, and we finally loaded him up and followed his directions to his desired destination. He acted a bit worried as we got close, and he had us turn into a driveway just past HIS turnoff and insisted we let him out so he could walk his bike the rest of the way. We tried to assure him we had no problem with taking him all the way to the house but he was insistent, and it started feeling like he was worried about his Uncle seeing us deliver him... so we let him out to do his thing walking the last 100 yards or so. No idea what worried him.... Oh Well.
I forgot to take the Garmin 350 GPS today so I have only limited data to report from the beacon-tasked GPS on the APRS tracking beacon system.
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.2
(Battery not charged in 3 days, 2 with bike travel)
Lowest Temp 69.8 F Highest Temp: 77 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 4.18
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
3.1 MPH 4.9 MPH 16 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 19 mins 42 mins 36 minutes
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