Joe and I took a quick loop on the high drive trails yesterday when there was still some snow. I've got a couple trails documented now. Got a Spokane trail? Send me a gpx or better, contact me and we can ride it while I track it. The why is here. My first couple trails are shown here (if you're running a Mac, you must view the page with Firefox).
I took the front rack and basket off the Turd. What a difference. It's so EASY to ride now. I also took off the holy rollers and put some more aggressive knobbies on there. These two changes make this bike a lot of fun to ride in the snow. I had a great time bombing around the high drive trails on it yesterday. I also rode it last night on the FBC ride.
I cannot figure out how to take good night pics with my camera. These photos suck, but they do a good enough job of showing how righteous the bikes looked. The FBC had it's monthly ride last night and all bikes had lights. But a couple really shined.
Considering it was pissing down rain at 9pm last night and the streets were all slushy and shitty, there was a good turn out. Eight or nine?
I did a little looking for short strings of battery powered LED lights the last couple weeks, but didn't have any luck. Any lighting advice for future reference?
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ReplyDeleteI set the fill flash as low as it can go, and it brightens the field enough to get a respectable picture without burning everything.
Hi, I did the same thing with my bike a couple of weeks ago. Made the early morning commute all the better!
ReplyDeleteFound a great place to purchase battery powered LED Christmas lights - The Walgreens at NW Blvd and Ash.
$5.95 for a 7 foot strand with 20 lights. But, get this - today it's 50% off on all holiday fixins'. I picked up some more this morning. There were still about 8 boxes of the multicolor and 4 boxes of the clear.
In the next few days, I'll post what I'm up to with these lights on my Spokanarama blog!
I got mine at Walgreens, too. Haven't seen them anywhere else in town, but then again, I wasn't looking very hard...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about Walgreens, I had tried the new South Hill one last week, but didn't find anything. The Ash - NW Blvd one isn't too far from work so I went over there today. I grabbed the last clear and three of the mulicolor for future projects. They still have a few of the multicolor at $3 each if anyone else needs any.
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