It was great getting back on the road for today’s bike ride. Before the ride while airing up tires I found a bubble sticking out of the rear tire on my Lynskey Helix bike from a cut in the sidewall. The tires have about 1800 miles and I didn’t want to replace it so I put a boot cut from an old tire inside covering the cut. That worked well for the ride. This is the first ride with the new SRAM Rival Quarq power meter crankset I had installed yesterday. I paired to my Wahoo Bolt computer and it worked great. I need to check if it also reports cadence. I also wore a new pair of Peral Izumi Elite Gel gloves I received for Christmas.

The weather warmed up to 73 as I started the ride at 11:47 AM. Riding my Lynksey Helix I chose the Atascocita – Walden – Huffman route. The wind was 13 mph from the south as I rolled away and added 28 mph gusts before I finished the ride at 2:25 PM. My legs got a workout getting to FM 2100 because of the strong wind where I started the return to Kingwood. I thought it would be chilly riding across Lake Houston because of the wind coming over the cold water but it wasn’t to bad riding east. I think it was chillier riding west because the sun wasn’t out as much. Thanks to my Zwift riding my legs kept active for the return to the road.

Weather during the ride: start 73 (humidity 64%, dew point 60), mostly clear, wind S 13 mph; finish 75 (humidity 65%, dew point 62), mostly cloudy, wind S 13 mph gusts 28 mph.

I noticed after my last road ride on December 13th that my Lazer red helmet is turning yellow on the rear like my previous one. No idea what is causing this. I put my hand in that area to turn the adjusting knob. Maybe that causes the yellowing? The next helmet will be white.

Data from my AXS.SRAM.com ride report.