it's been at least 6 months since the last time i rode my bike.
it's been at least a year since the last time i rode it more than once in a month. probably been a year since the last time i rode it.
i decided to ride it today. this involved no small amount of prep work: pumping tires, searching for bike shorts, searching for insoles for shoes to wear, searching for bike shorts, eating a light-ish lunch, jump starting the jeep, attaching the bike rack, and so forth.
when we finally arrived at our insertion point, i got all my junk on (helmet, gloves, camel sack, and so forth) and biked for a good 1-2 minutes -- just enough to ensure allergy irritation and muscle soreness for the next 2 days -- before my bike stopped operating. apparently, there was no power transfer between the chain and the rear wheel. i could pedal and shift all i wanted, but it had no effect on the turning of the wheel.
i spent a good ten minutes proving that i had no idea how a bicycle works before walking back to the car in defeat.
so whoopie, now i am determined on account of this to do at least two things:
1) become knowledgeable in bicycle repair
2) buy a road bike since that's really what i should have gotten 7 years ago when i got my mountain bike what what i only ride on roads
3) make room indoors to keep my bike on account of our crummy garage here is no place to keep a bike and neither is my patio on account of things rust out there and there's no room on account of the tomato plant
4) become knowledgeable in bicycle repair
i am sure that had i done 1 and 4 last year, i'd have known how to apply $simple_fix to get my bike working again and could feel like i'd actually done something to deserve the aforementioned soreness and allergies.
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