On Saturday I took a short (~95km) trip with Jerome and Didier in not-too-hot but stiflingly humid weather. We started late, amid heavy traffic, and needed to return early. At Takao, an overheating Jerome took a dip in the Asagawa.
Many passersby chuckled. A few applauded.
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Orange cosmos hide the Parlee Altum-R and Gokiso wheels.
Fun to ride a zippy road bike after lots of randonneuring the past month! |
Then we took Machida Kaido and did the climb to Shiroyama Dam, finally a route without traffic on the climb and descent. Then back to town via the "tank road" and Onekan. As Jerome warned from a recent trip, two-thirds of the length of the "tank road" was mobbed with zombies staring at smartphones playing "pokemon go".
I pinch flatted near the bottom of the last descent on Onekan going over a big gap at the beginning of the last bridge ... Too late I realized that I had high rim wheels, short/mid-length valves on my spare tubes and no valve extender. I patched my flat tube ... and made it another 4~5 kms. There followed a number of attempts at a fix, none successful, and in the end I rode a few kms on the flat tube with JJ and DD to Seo Cycles north of Komae, got a valve extender, and was able to ride home.
I cannot wait for cooler, dry weather. But Sunday and Monday has been rainy, and the next week looks like more of the same.
Tank Road! Zombies! Oh, tell me about it!!!! They are ruining what was once a lovely place. The trash they drop is almost as bad as their zombie behaviour.
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Welcome back, David. You didn't miss anything weather-wise. This summer seems worse than usual in terms of rain and humidity, though far fewer days with extreme temperatures during the day.
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