I made the wrong choice for today’s bike ride. I think the weather radar I checked before starting was out of date even though the time showed the current time. My plan was to bike south towards Huffman and back but as I rode through Kingwood and near Kingwood High School it started to sprinkle and when I got to Kingwood Greens it started to rain hard so I turned back. Riding north along W. Lake Houston Parkway I decided to go through the new shopping center to see what stores are there. The rain slowed to a drizzle and as I rode back to W. Lake Houston parkway to continue north the rain stopped.

By now I was soaked and the 80% humidity made me feel like I was in a sauna suit with the soak jersey and shorts. I headed back home riding an indirect way to get the mileage above 10 and ended up with 11.4 miles. Not biking yesterday due to rain until afternoon this week’s biking totaled 148 miles, short of my 200 mile goal. For the month of June I am at 695 miles with 5 days to reach my 800 mile goal. If the rain will cooperate I can make the goal.

Yesterday with the rain I performed maintenance on my Stradalli Red Pro 14 bike. The brake pads looked close to needing to be replaced but the wear grooves still showed a few miles left but I too one pad off to check and found the pad needed to replaced now. I took off the old brake pads one at a time and installed the new ones (new pads are Jagwire JS453RCB). This is what the old ones looked like. (click on the image to enlarge it)

Behind what looked like not worn out pads if I waited too much longer the carbon rims might have been damaged. Thank you rain for pausing me long enough to check these out. Later I decided to swap the tires as well. I installed the Continental Gatorskin Hardshell 700×23 tires 1/23/2017 at 19257 miles. Now after 2756 miles I rotated to see if I can get more miles than not rotating them. While I had the rims off the bike I washed down all of the places I can’t get into with them on the bike. So even though I didn’t get to ride yesterday I touched the bike anyway.

Hopefully the rain moves out tomorrow and I get to bicycle.

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