Biking

At last spring is here, this morning I woke up to birds chirping and yesterday I stepped on a few wasps that were walking on the side walk. The sun has been out constantly and temperatures have lingered above ten degrees for the last two days. The snow has been melting up a storm and grass is beginning to show itself.

My favorite activity is cycling. I can't think of anything more pleasant then riding a bike on a warm and sunny day. Unfortunately those not so warm days can be quite miserable on a bike. This week was luckily both arm and sunny and provided me with an opportune moment to break out my bike for the first time this year.

The one major plan with spring riding is the roads are often covered in street salts and water from the snow melt. This concoction can prove to be quite detrimental to the drive train of a bike. But with careful maintenance any damage from street salts can be reversed.

By last Sunday I couldn't wait any longer to go out and ride. So as soon as I finished work I went straight home, grabbed my bike, and went out for a rip. Dylan was also quite antsy to get out and I met um with him at the PMC arena.

We set out just to have a fun ride, mess around, and try to do some tricks. This is exactly what we accomplished also. We rode down to the East end mall stopping every where some feature caught our eyes. Tall curbs, banks ledges, jumps and other obstacles were what we were looking for. We found a fair number of features in the mall's parking lot and as a result we spent a decent amount of time there.

Once we got tired of riding there we headed down to the high school. In front of this school there is an excellent wall ride that I wanted to spend a bit of time on. After finishing up here we headed down to river side park and down town. Now it was around seven so traffic was not to much of an issue. We could ride features that crossed the streets without much worries.

Our first ride of the year came to an end as the sun sunk into the horizon. And I am quite satisfied with the way it went. The following days were also warm which gave me a few more chances to go out and ride. Now I can only hope that the nice weather is here to stay, and that it will keep on getting nicer.