{"id":62375,"date":"2023-05-09T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=62375"},"modified":"2023-05-09T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:18:10","slug":"soft-front-tire-switched-bikes-flirted-with-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/soft-front-tire-switched-bikes-flirted-with-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Front Tire, Switched Bikes, Flirted With Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soft Front Tire, Switched Bikes, Flirted With Storm 5\/9\/2023\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSjfRgvmmXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pausing the live video of stage 4 on the Giro d&#8217;Italia I went to get ready for today&#8217;s bike ride. Earlier I checked the weather radar and saw a big block of rain southwest of Houston. I thought I might have enough time to bike at least 24.2 miles to not lose ground on my goal for May. I filled my water bottle and put it in the Cervelo&#8217;s cage and squeezed the front tire. It was soft but not flat. I haven&#8217;t ridden it since Saturday and fixed a front tire flat on May 4th. I switched to the Lynskey Helix but forgot the water bottle. (a backup bike is great) I rolled away on the ride at 9:45 AM with an overcast sky, 96% humidity and a 7 mph breeze. I planned to ride south through Atascocita and Walden, stop at FM 1960 to check the radar and if it looked okay then ride east over Lake Houston. As I reached the Kings River Drive on W. Lake Houston I heard thunder for the first time. It was beginning to look like my plan would not work. Riding on Upper lake Drive I felt light rain and heard more thunder. I made the decision to head back to Kingwood rather than ride on and probably get soaked or caught waiting for the storm to pass. I picked up the pace trying to beat the approaching storm. Back across the river I rode beside W. Lake Houston Parkway under some trees which block some of the light rain. I waited to cross Kingwood Drive hoping the rain wouldn&#8217;t strengthen and rode behind HEB setting a Strava <strong>2nd fastest time<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/9040349406\/segments\/3091050216926285842\">New HEB Alley<\/a>\u00a0(1:28). From there it was about 2 miles to home and the end of the ride. I knew it was close as I rode on Tree Lane when the wind kicked up and the temperature dropped. I made it home by 11:09 AM with only light rain. About 15 minutes later the storm arrived. I rode 18 miles which was less than I planned but better than zero miles. For some solace the stage 4 cyclist also rode in the rain but they didn&#8217;t quit like I did. I lost a little of the daily miles I was ahead on my goal but still have a cushion of 12.09 days versus today being the 9th. Maybe the weather on Wednesday will be better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"9040349406\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pausing the live video of stage 4 on the Giro d&#8217;Italia I went to get ready for today&#8217;s bike ride. Earlier I checked the weather radar and saw a big block of rain southwest of Houston. I thought I might <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/soft-front-tire-switched-bikes-flirted-with-storm\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[5337,2560,212,5297,4719,5317,5576,2364],"class_list":["post-62375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-old-atascocita-road","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-kingwood-streets","tag-lynskey-helix-titanium-bike","tag-rain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ge3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62376,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375\/revisions\/62376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}