Windy Wednesday Triking

Today's Tracking via APRS and Ham Radio

Jacque and I squoze in a ride on the trike today.  It was a struggle to make time for it.... it's ALWAYS a struggle to find time for exercise of any kind, much less stress-free shock-free fun aerobic exercise (i.e., cycling).
Yesterday was sucked dry by a failing dishwasher that wet the floor and made a mess.  Monday afternoon was when this occurred and yesterday we went to town, spent a few hundred, and brought home a "new" GE dishwasher that had been sold and returned and declared to be totally functional.  Trouble is, the returned dishwasher had no box, it was shrink wrapped to a pallet so it couldn't be opened for inspection, and many installation parts were missing.  We got it for less than a third of the listed price so we were motivated to put up with a few shortcomings.  The water inlet was located in a different location, so I was unable to finish the installation and test the washer until today.  It seemed to start and run OK with almost a full load of dishes...... but it seemed to take forever to get through the wash cycles.  It had been running over  an hour when we finally left for our trike ride and ....... wait for it...... it was STILL RUNNING when we got home, for a total of over 4 hours.  Jacque turned it off manually and called the store and of course they told us it would have to be brought in.  Later today I remembered a weird thing I spotted when I was installing the monster:  A pair of wires leading to a thermal sensor that was not attached to anything;  it was just hanging by a plastic zip-tie to a part of the undercarriage.  I suspect it is supposed to be mounted somewhere that it can sense the dishwasher temperature to indicate when the temp is hot enough to continue the wash cycle.  Tomorrow I'm going to look into that before we take the machine back to the store.  I'm more than willing to put in a bit more labor to avoid having to pay more money for another "discounted" dishwasher.
Oh, Yeah, the Trike Ride.... it turned out to be windy-er and much nippier than we expected.  It was sunny and beautiful but COLD and sharp.  We didn't really suffer..... it was just not that comfortable to ride like we are spoiled to expect.
Jacque has a new bike computer mounted on her stoker handlebars that reads out speed, elapsed time, yada, yada.  It recorded us making close to 40 MPH today whilst we pedaled furiously in tallest chain-rings smoking it downhill.  My Garmin GPS recorded a max speed of slightly over 30 MPH.... I daresay I need to calibrate the bike computer.  It uses a magnet mounted on the rear wheel to count revolutions and is supposed to be calibrated to the 20" wheel diameter.  It may be a bit off.  I tend to trust GPS readings but I could be mistaken......

Trip Started: 1:48 PM    Trip Ended:  2:55 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.0        Ending Voltage: 12.9
Lowest Temp  45 F      Highest Temp:  50 F
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  6.03
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  5.9 MPH                                7.2 MPH                    31.2 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
1 hour  1 minute                   50 mins 35 secs           10 mins 25 secs