Strong rain arrived around 7 AM and lingered until about 11 AM. I waited a couple of hours for the streets to dry some and rolled out at 2:24 PM on my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike. With the later start I rode the Kingwood – Brooklyn Trails route for 17.56 miles. Plenty of signs along the ride of the 1.86″ of rain (my home weather station). The previous bike rides on this route are varying distances and Strava matched two others.

While the streets dried I replaced the bar tape on the Cervelo Caledonia. I’m not proficient wrapping handlebars. It took several times before I was satisfied. I used Zipp Service Course CX Bar Tape black.

Closing out May bike rides I wanted to ride longer today but the 17.56 miles pushed May over October 2023 by 1 mile: 935.24 vs. 934.28. May also surpassed September’s 923.55 miles. Year to date I’ve rode 4013 miles. I was on a bike 27 days out of 31. Cervelo Caledonia 11 rides (400.07 miles), Canyon Endurace 10 rides (376.28 miles), Lynskey Helix 5 rides (144.41 miles), Trek Marlin 8 MTB 1 ride (14.45 miles). Average ride distance was 34.64 miles. Longest ride 51.5 miles and the shortest was 14.5 miles.