I will get to the title stuff in a minute. Today 6 other bicyclists thought it was a good day to ride based on the people I saw. In the first 2 miles I spotted two bicyclists on Tree Lane in Kingwood. This would be all until I was stopped at the Huffman Chevron when Manuel Hernandez pulled into the Chevron station. After leaving Huffman heading back home 3 more bicyclists popped up on Atascocita Shores Drive. I was glad I chose the Atascocita – Walden – Huffman route today.

Leaving home at 1:36 I rode under a clear sky and 67 degrees. This is the first ride since December 19th due to cool weather and Christmas. I was inspired today by both the nice weather (for December anyway) and the Superprestige Cyclocross Diegem cyclocross race I watched after church this morning. The race was a little unusual because they raced under the lights in mud and cold. All of the racers wore shorts, arm warmers and jerseys. They must have more cold endurance than me.

The route today came in at 31.78 miles bringing December miles to 275.44 and year to date to 6261 miles. With the weather change I don’t think I will get to ride any more this year but New Year’s day might warm up enough to go biking.

Back to the lead. The rider who stopped at the Huffman Chevron was Manuel Hernandez and we visited for a few minutes. He noticed I ride a Motobecane and he told me about the Motobecane Nemesis he rode in the past. The bike he was on today was a Lightspeed and I told him that I use to rode one until I crashed (in 2005 a SUV side swiped me breaking the frame). He then told me about the Scott bike he had before the Lightspeed. I am not sure when but one day he was riding on FM1960 going west and turned onto Atascocita Shores Drive. At the first stop sign a Jeep stopped on his left. The Jeep had a trailer attached. Manuel pulled away from the stop sign with the Jeep. Not too long after that he heard some noise and looked back to see the trailer come loose from the Jeep with the safety chain holding the trailer but not too long after that the chain broke and the trailer started coming into the lane Manuel was in. He was too close to the curb to ride up over it so he jumped off his bike into the grass leaving the Scott bike in the street. The trailer went right over the bike before crashing into a mailbox. It was a total loss.

While Manuel was talking I noticed he was wearing a pair Google Glass. This is the first time I have seen these in person. Manuel is an IT person so I guess this a natural for him. I told him I am playing around with a Raspberry Pi.

By the time I finished the ride at 4:12 the blue sky turned overcast and the temperature went down to 64.

While I was biking I noticed the left brake lever has slipped down the handlebar and the bar tape is loose . Looks like I need to take the bar tape off and reposition the lever.

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