Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Humph - It's Even Colder when the Sun's not Shining

Today's Tracking
We finally got a call back from the realtor listing the cute A-Frame house we spotted a couple days ago, so Jacque suggested we ride the trike over to view the place with the realtor present.
Looking outside prior to riding, it was a little cloudy but no moisture and no wind evident.  So I thought it would be an OK ride.  Jacque worried a little about it but I reassured her it would be fine since it wasn't stormy or raining/snowing.
Well, all that was true, but we were taken aback at how COLD it was.  Without the sunshine it was just this side of miserable.  There is a slight uphill grade approaching the for-sale house, so I was getting close to overheated (with Jazzie acting as a belly-warmer tucked into the front of my windbreaker).  However, it seemed the INSTANT we stopped riding, I immediately got cold again and didn't get warm until we started riding back toward the house.  The A-Frame was cute but the asking price made us not even want to make a lowball offer on it.  It was small, it was cramped, and the master bedroom is up a steep set of stairs, unattractive to a sexy woman with a problematic knee such as my lovely spouse.
We normally would have ridden on up toward the East to our short but steep post office run for a finale, but we were so thoroughly chilled when we got back to the petro-powered transport vehicle we stopped and loaded it up on the roof-rack and got that bad petro-powered heater going.  It was great to find our toes again....
Our tires on this Trike are now getting dangerously bald.  We bought them new at Wal-Mart a year or so ago and thought we might invest in some more expensive but longer-lasting ones.  After looking up prices online and finding "high-quality"   20" X 2.0" tires listed at FIFTY bucks a pop NOT including shipping, we decided we'd prefer to just buy another set of Walmart tires and get another year or so service out of them.
Trip Started: 11:26 AM    Trip Ended:  12:47 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.0        Ending Voltage: 12.9
Lowest Temp  38 F      Highest Temp:  45 F
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  4.31
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  3.3 MPH                                6.1 MPH                    27.2 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
1 hour  18 mins                     42 mins  34 secs         35 mins 26 secs

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