I Got The Drift On This Bike Ride, Calm Wind For A Change

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I waited and waited for the fog to lift and the temperature to go up a few more degrees before starting today’s bike ride at 12:38 PM. Because of the later start I changed my planned route for the “Forest Cove – Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. I was going to ride a longer route but I biked 30.4 miles on this one. I rode my Lynskey R300 bike without any sign of another flat tire like I had on Friday’s bike ride.

Other than the slow clearing fog the weather was on the cool side by my standards. The forecast called for a high of 83 but when I finished the ride at 2:55 PM it was not close to that. Weather conditions: start 68 (94% humidity, 65.8 dew point), fog/overcast, wind W 6 mph; finish 71 (87% humidity, 66.9 dew point), overcast with haze, wind NE 3 mph. Not fighting a double digit headwind was nice today. I did dress for cool temperatures with shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. Towards the end of the bike ride I wanted to wear a regular long sleeve jersey but too late then.

Saturday I received a new video camera that I thought would be better in some ways than the GoPro cameras I have been using. Today I used it for the first time. I think the video was good and the audio was louder than the GoPro’s but with too much gain making it scratchy. I adjusted the audio some. This is the first video where the audio has been too loud. The new camera is the Drift Ghost XL with an external mic.

  • 3-15-2021 Drift Ghost XL Camera-1
  • 3-15-2021 Drift Ghost XL Camera-2
  • 3-15-2021 Drift Ghost XL Camera-3
  • 3-15-2021 Drift Ghost XL Camera-4

I had to get creative on attaching the external mic to the camera body. Generally it worked with the rubber tire tube piece keeping the mic from moving around too much when I pulled the rig from my jacket pocket to record. I need to improve that. The Drift offers a longer battery live, smaller size that GoPro with the microphone adapter, easy rotation of the lens for different angles. It doesn’t have as many video resolution options. The sound from the Drift once I get the right sensitivity setting appears to be good.

Without the strong winds from the previous rides I powered through the ride with a Strava segment personal record.

  • 3-15-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Data Summary-1
  • 3-15-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Data Summary-2

Texas Biking Action March 14th 2021

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Littlefield man killed in bicycle collision on US 84

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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – 45-year-old David Vera of Littlefield has died after a vehicle collided with his bicycle on US 84 in Lamb County on Saturday evening.

DPS tells us a 2020 Chevrolet Equinox was headed eastbound on US 84 near mile marker 290. Vera was also headed eastbound when the two collided on the roadway near the fog line.

The collision happened around 6:20 p.m.

Vera was taken to UMC by ambulance where he was pronounced deceased.

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Texas Biking Action March 13th 2021

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The RAT 1000 Experience

Paul, Drop Bar, Texas: A cycling podcast | anchor.fm

Texas is 773 miles across at its furthest east – west points. Yet, the Race Across Texas 1000, aka RAT 1000 covers approximately 1000 miles across North Texas. Caleb Wills and Peter Rajcani speak about their experiences during past attempts of the race. Also in this episode, the Loya family is recognized in Feats of Glory for their latest advocacy efforts in memory of their son David Loya, Jr., and a look around the state at a few upcoming events.

Music: Back to the Woods by Jason Shaw

Links: RAT 1000 Penelope TX Gran Fondo The Crank Stranger Milano Cookie Crusher Caldwell County Classic

Volunteer Sign-Up – Bicycle Heaven 22nd Annual STORM Hill Country MTB Challenge

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Sat Apr 10 – Sun Apr 11, 2021 Comfort, TX Thanks for volunteering for the Bicycle Heaven 22nd Annual STORM Hill Country MTB Challenge race! Volunteer Information:

Prior to the event, you will be e-mailed a volunteer handbook outlining your assigned tasks. Please review and contact us if you cannot fulflful those responsibilities.

Please arrive on time for your respective duties as they are time-sensitive and critical to the timely and safe operation of our event.

Volunteers will be added to the front gate list and have their land use and camping fees waived. …

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Gravel ride with Hayden, Jon and Chloe

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Birthday Bully Ride – Wooooooooooo!!!!!! N

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Sonja’s Gravel Baptism by Fire – Virtual Mid South by Meteor

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Putting my pockets on creatine so they can swell up themselves

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Discomfort is the price of admission!

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Stopped A Bad Streak, Continued A Good One Biking to Huffman

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I broke my two day streak of flat tires on today’s bike ride. This was one streak I didn’t mind breaking. One streak I continued was 200+ mile weeks. This is the third one in a row, not bad for this time of the year. After watching the races from Europe which ended earlier than the previous ones I got ready for the bike ride. I rolled my Canyon Endurace bike out and rode down the driveway pushing the start button on my Wahoo bolt computer at 9:54 AM. Today’s route was my usual Saturday ride where I hope to see other cyclists and today I saw more than last week when I started much later. The route: “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” biking 32.77 miles which put me 208.11 miles for the week. (Summary of the week is below). This was the first time to bike this route in 2021. I may add to that with a Sunday bike ride but the weather might not let me. I’m still ahead of last year by 56 miles. Today’s bike.

3-13-2021 Bike Ride Today's Bike

More nice warm weather and the wind wasn’t that strong when I started but it picked up during the bike ride: Weather conditions: start 74 (80% humidity, 67.7 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 7 mph; finish 79 (52% humidity, 60.3 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 16 mph gusts 23 mph. I wore shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey. Early in the ride I was a little cooler than I prefer but about 15 minutes in my body heat kicked in and I was okay from then on.

Other cyclists appeared as I rode south over the river on West Lake Houston Parkway an more followed spread out from there to FM 2100. After returning to the west side of the lake I saw a couple more before finishing the bike ride at 12:24 PM.

Getting to FM 2100 required hard pedaling into the strong headwind which built up while I rode in that direction. My legs were able to power through much better than yesterday. At the turn to the north on FM 2100 I felt the headwind change to a tailwind and pedaling was easier. Power output in zones 3 through 7 came in at 52% of the 2:22:42 moving time during the bike ride. Bike ride summary data from Golden Cheetah.

  • 3-13-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Data-1
  • 3-13-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Data-2

The week’s bike rides summary so far.

3-13-2021 Week to Date Bike Rides Summary

Strava showed a personal record on Kings Crossing North (1:40).