After yesterday’s hard bike ride in Galveston I decided to make today’s ride a shorter one. But first I watched two bike races on GCN+ while eating breakfast. This delayed my start a little to 10:10 AM. I rode my Lynskey Helix bike which will get the crankset changed out later today to a 46×33, not exactly the one I wanted but closer than the 43×30 it has now. I am tempted to give the Lynskey Helix the nickname “Almost Bike.” Almost got the wheels I ordered and almost got the crankset I ordered.

The route for the shorter bike ride was my “Atascocita – Walden” route which is the same s the “Atascocita – Walden -Huffman” route without going east over Lake Houston. What I wanted to see was what the lane changes at FM 1960 and Atascocita shores Drive looked like. I mentioned on Tuesday the sign was not flashing the lane change message but when I arrived at FM 1960 on Pinehurst Trail Drive I could see the lanes were changed. The video shows both of those locations.

In the video I guess what the distance would be and missed by several miles. Adding some extra streets the ride went 29.15 miles, not that much less than the usual 33+ when I ride over Lake Houston to Huffman. I checked SportTracks to see the last time I rode this route and found it was September 24th, 2020. That ride was about 3 miles shorter.

With the 43×30 crankset on the Lynskey Helix the gear combinations change from the Cervelo ones. I used the large ring on the FD to get close to the Cervelo’s. The various gears I used can be seen at AXS.SRAM.com ride report. I rode almost the same time in each of the FD chain rings, 1:09:20 on the 30 and 1:09:17 on the 43. 2 FD shifts and 27 RD shifts.

My week’s mileage is now 155.69 leaving 45 miles to reach a 200+ mile week. June totals 315.71 miles towards my 800 mile goal.