juliet | (no subject)

Next time I bitch about how cycling is being more difficult, can someone remind me to pump my damn tyres up? kthxbye

This is not actually as daft as it sounds; we have reasonably recently acquired a stand-up type pump, with a PSI gauge, the use of which this morning led me to discover that what I had hitherto thought of as 'reasonably hard' was in fact right at the bottom end of the recommended range for the tyres. Couldn't get it anywhere close to the top end (though I was in a hurry; I may try again at the weekend), but it made a big difference to how easy it was to move the damn thing along the road.

In other news: had a splendid date with

ergotia on Tuesday; stayed in all on my own doing assorted things yesterday (making a Mac-bag for Ben, putting more of my US photos together, playing with the rats, that sort of thing); over at St P this evening (Ben is currently cooking dinner, mmm food); & off to Ain't Nothin' But (blues bar in Soho) tomorrow evening. Excellent stuff. Work also going pretty well atm. Good things all round.

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If it's regularly deflating, even a bit, then it'd be well worth it IMO. I was amazed at the difference having really solid tyres made. (makes sense really, of course - the harder & therefore rounder they are, the less tyre surface is in contact with the road, & therefore the less friction is there to battle against. But I hadn't really thought about it that hard :-) ). I intend to start pumping them up regularly on Sundays, rather than waiting till I notice flatness.

makes sense really, of course - the harder & therefore rounder they are, the less tyre surface is in contact with the road, & therefore the less friction is there to battle against

Dude, have you been talking to ex-physicists again? I thought I'd warned you about that...