12th ride - 5/16/15

I had intended to do a new "longest ride" today—there is a sidewalk that runs along the south side of Jackson Rd. clear out to Baker Rd. (Dexter), and this round trip would have been over 19 miles and taken me 2 hours (plus). However, after setting out about 7:00 a.m. on a warm, but damp, Saturday morning, I didn't get too far before detecting that the seat was once more swaying like a hammock as it had on Thursday. The seat clamp must have worked itself loose on yesterday's ride. Foolishly, I had neglected to bring with me the L wrench to tighten the clamp.

So, I felt it would not be prudent to do such a long ride with the trike in that condition, and instead I stuck much closer to home. It had rained during the night, and the ground was quite wet, so my tires threw up water and got me quite soaked. Additionally, the temperature was in the low sixties—cool enough to make a hoodie feel good, but warm enough so that after nearly an hour of riding I had worked up a pretty good sweat. I rode a route I used to run frequently, calling it the Figure 8, and then went down to Stonebridge and did (lazily) only one loop in the subdivision before returning back home, safe and sound, for a total ride of a mere 8.1 miles in 54 minutes.