Heart of Steel

Last weekend, we had a break in the weather: dry and temps in the 40s. It felt like spring after what's felt like weeks of temperatures in the teens. Saturday, I took the Camargue on a library and beer run, and Sunday I headed out for one of my favorite loops on ye Olde 650B Trek. The roads were nicely cleared, but some of the smaller trails I'd planned to ride on hadn't been cleared:

I had to push it up this icy hill, then continued to push for probably another half mile along this icy bike path:

A new bike, and, uh, another, and wait, one more!

It's been a busy and destructive month for my bike fund. As I mentioned in the last post, a few weeks back I picked up a Trek 620 on our local Craigslist:

It's in pretty good shape for a 30 year old bike. I figure I'll update the wheels, bars, and pedals, and have a drop barred, geared road bike again with nice, flexible tubing and a relatively low trail front end, for not much dough.

New Trek Day

While I was out running around with Henry on Saturday, I saw our local Trek Store had their used kids' bikes at 50% off. They had a 16" Trek Mystic in pink that I thought would be perfect for Kate... but I didn't buy it, figuring it would make for good father/daughter time if I brought her with me the next day to get it.

Of course, the next day, it was gone.

Helpfully, the Trek guy called around to their other stores, and the Westerville location had the same bike for sale. We trekked up there (ha!), and $55 later, Kate had a great new bike: