Jacque's knee has been troubling her recently so she has taken to riding her Catrike by herself if I'm not ready and available to go a-riding with her on the Tandem Recumbent Terratrike . She's done this despicable running-off-without-me the last couple of days.
I've been occupied recently with burrowing deep into the bowels of our broken-down RV, carefully digging away the layers of cables, brackets, power steering and radiator overflow reservoirs, batteries and trays, and multiple assortments of what-not to retrieve the radiator so it can be taken to the local radiator shop for cleaning and refurbishing, if possible. If not possible then it's a horrific mind numbing bank breaking sum to buy a new unit.
Whilst all this front end stuff is out of the way, I plan to replace both the 460 engine's clutch fan as well as the water pump, since these are hard to get to and I definitely don't want to leave any near or far-term excuses to have to do all this work over again in the near future.
This has sucked up way too much of my time, but at current RV repair labor prices, my time is WAY more affordable than shop time. Thus I struggle on. It will take ten times longer than if I took it to the shop but we have the time. Hopefully I won't use UP all my time available and can still sneak in occasional bike and trike rides.
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| As Calvin & Hobbes's Dad says: All This Work Builds Character |
The trike had been parked for several days, so I topped off the tire pressure and loaded it on the roof rack: Our goat-path road is too rough to ride the trike on. We tried it a couple times in the past and stripped gears, broke chains, and bottomed out. So it's the highway or no way....
We rode east, young man, today. This direction we still have hills but more gradual ones. Going west means the horrible nasty hard climb up to North-14 that everyone, even real cyclists, hate. The prevailing winds along here normally blow east out of the Sandia Crest area but when we started this morning it was in our faces, blowing to the west. I've experienced this before, and by some force of magic, the wind normally starts blowing the OTHER way when we're coming back, just to make sure we enjoy headwinds coming and going. Today was warm enough that we didn't complain about the wind in our faces: It helped cool us off.
We offer no competition whatever to road racers, and we didn't quite make 10 miles today, but we always get a good aerobic workout no matter what. So There.
Trip Started: 9:03 AM Trip Ended: 11:19 AM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.9 Ending Voltage: 13.0
Lowest Temp 67 F Highest Temp: 78 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 9.35
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.1 MPH 6.8 MPH 32.3 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 16 mins 1 hour 22 mins 54 minutes
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