Tyler and I rode about a mile and a half, mostly East on Clinton, this morning. Temp was 23F and the road was 2″ deep in snow. Tyler was super excited and ran (rather than her usual slow jog) the better part of the first mile. Not too shabby for an almost 14 year old Chocolate Lab!
I filled the 24″ Big Apple tires with 37psi and they performed flawlessly. Virtually no slippage and cornering was easy. The sound of snow crunching under bike tires is one of the world’s finest sounds!
Our Destination was Cafe Au Play on Division and about 56th. It’s a non profit community center trying to raise startup funds by selling Xmas trees. We met the fam there and hauled a big and little tree 3 blocks back to the house by balancing them on the snapdeck and walking the bike along. Go there if you want a cheap tree for a good cause.
Later in the afternoon, I convinced the kids it would be fun to go ride bikes up and down the street in the snow. And it was! We took Tyler and rode back and forth for half an hour or so, whooping and hollering the whole time. They were skeptical when I first pitched the snowcapade, but they soon realized that Suey knows things. Good things. Fun things. Magic things.
So the moral of this story is that Snowpocalypse 2008 completely rocks, and a bike makes it even better.
That’s all for tonight. Time to trim the tree, tend the fire and rock the Bailey’s. Merry Xmas eve eve eve eve eve to you and yours!
PS I’m posting this from my iPhone – a first for me.
