I got a day off work with beautiful weather. Before setting out I took off Kuroko’s stem cap and discovered the compression plug was standing proud of the top of the steerer tube. It was a moment’s work with the proper hex wrench and torque wrench to put that right. Then, with a couple of…

(metric) With a forecast for good weather today and rain tomorrow, I was determined to get out for a ride this morning. Nana was up early, whipping up a batch of her world-famous onigiri, but I was dawdling. I was hoping for the temperatures to get into double-digits before I set out. I’m not particularly…

Somehow the entire month of January got past me. There were weekends I had something else going on, like the visit to the snake shrine. I was all set to ride last weekend when I discovered it was far too windy to ride. And there were times I simply didn’t feel up to it. For…

I’ve got so much stuff sitting around that I won’t throw away because I might need it someday. It’s quite a challenge in our little flat. As an example: at least three different glasses cases. (One of them probably holds the reading glasses the doc wants me to use.) Today I’ve been going through various…

Yesterday was a test ride to the Sagami Lake region. I’ve been there before by climbing Otarumi Touge and then looping back through Kanagawa Prefecture. That’s a long ride of 130km or so, and of course involves climbing a mountain pass. Instead, by riding more directly towards Sagami Lake, and through traffic, I hoped to…