Socked In

It was pretty foggy this morning and it kind of kept the speed down for a while since it was really hard to see the miscellaneous pedestrians, dog-walkers and other riders on the path. We were still going a bit over what one might consider a safe speed, but we had at least stationed the guys with the flashing lights in front. As usual, I eventually had to take off my clear glasses, as they kept getting clouded up from the fog. After yesterday's wet ride, my computer has decided to freak out. It's one of those Campagnolo ones. I've never quite figured out what exactly it is about riding in the rain that causes it, but it will invariably start cycling through all of the modes as if I was relentlessly pushing the mode button. I know it's not the computer itself. I put a plastic bag and rubber band over it earlier this year for a road race that started in the pouring rain and the same thing happened. It's got to be either the little buttons in the brake levers or one of the pickups. It always resolves itself after a week or so, but it's rather irritating until then. It came with the bike (I'd never actually pay that much for a cyclometer!) and has something like 36,000 miles on it by now and I have to admit that I really like the way it mounts in the center, ahead of the handlebars, but the chances of me ever replacing it with a new one are essentially zero, considering that a new one is close to $200.

One of the guys was riding an old Trek Carbon/Aluminum frame that he had recently gotten for free and built up with mostly spare parts. It was day-glo lime green and, I think, pink or something. Very 80's. Got me thinking that I need to find an old 80's frame in my size for cheap so I can build it up with the old Campi parts off my broken Cinelli. Maybe I could even go single-speed or fixed with it just for fun. I'd just need to rebuild a couple of the many tubular wheels I have into clinchers. Most everything else would likely just swap over.

Anyway, it was a decent morning's training ride.