Cycle Life Challenge Rides #12-15
Just a few random photos of things seen on the last few rides
Light frost — culvert under the drive maintains light frost above
Frosty bridge deck over the North Fork
Looks like she has been thru here too
Face covering in her shoe?
Setting sun
Brick tectonics on Lincoln Street
Broken tile mosaic
Collection of bicycle tools
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Greg’s brother appreciates your collection in the final photo. š
Darn that Old Grumbleface. I wanted to be the first one to say that.
Awww Your Bro is one of the few to possess a Helicomatic freewheel tool.
No question, Park Tool is the Snap On of bicycle tools.
6 minute History of Park Tool:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=park+tool+history&&view=detail&mid=8C34B674527C7351CEBC8C34B674527C7351CEBC&&FORM=VRDGAR
Thanks for that video link. I hadn’t seen it before. See that guy looking at a bike at the 4:34 mark? That’s my brother. He also worked as a mechanic at that Schwinn bike shop mentioned early in the video. That was back around 1980 while he was studying at the University of Minnesota. He had worked at a Schwinn shop in our Iowa hometown in high school so the partners were only too happy to hire an experienced mechanic. I remember him mentioning that the shop was the biggest Schwinn dealer in the U.S. at the time. After college, he lived and worked in Connecticut for a few years, but came back to Park Tool and has been there for at least 30 years now.
So ā we now know that she is NOT a masked woman. And she may have big feet.
Frosty mornings are happening around here too, but for the past few days we have been enjoying sunshine and 50 degrees for some great riding.
š And she could play checkers or chess on her shoes . . . . until she lost that one.
Rich, have you seen Jeff Teel’s recent post about day rides in central Illinois over on CycleBlaze? I got a kick out of seeing him pedal through fields of corn and beans. You might too.
https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/homecentered/
Thanks! No I hadn’t seen his post on CB — great photos and look very much Illinois.
The photos of small town IL are really something to appreciate.
I’ve enjoyed Jeff’s journals and amazed at his choice of bicycles — when the going gets tough he goes with the kick back 2 speed or 3 speed!
He is a fastidious time keeper –> “At 1:26pm, I’d made it to McLean County.”
He seemed surprised to see and Oliver tractor — never were too many of them around.
Old farm joke: John Deere married Allis Chalmers, they had little Oliver, and boy was he a Case!
Thanks for the link!
ASC and I were especially amused by his small-town fast-food restaurant meals like giant chicken-fried steak in tiny bun. That’s the Cornbelt cuisine I recall with fondness!
Interesting you should mention Jeff Teel’s journal today, because I also remember him writing a journal in which he followed the route of Alvin Strait in the movie “The Strait Story.” Emily and I just had an exchange about that movie in the last 24 hours on her “pasty” post. It’s a really cool movie. Much of it was filmed pretty close to where I used to live. Watch it, then read Jeff’s journal. I hope Em sees this since she just watched the movie.