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Some Steering Maintenance - Friday, April 3rd 2009 15:19
While doing the test drives a couple of days ago I noticed that there was a fair amount of lateral free-play in the front wheels. This is similar to what Gordon Koppang wrote...
We're Back! - Tuesday, March 31st 2009 15:23
Well sort of. We got in the first quadracycle ride of the season today, six days earlier than last year, but that is not to say that we went very far. Today was the first dry...
At Least Someone Is Quadracycling - Thursday, February 5th 2009 10:03
Yes here in Ottawa it was -23C this morning with windchills close to the -40 mark. There is about three feet of snow on the ground and the roads are either snow-packed or...
The 2008 Quadracycling Season - Monday, December 22nd 2008 16:36
Yesterday was the winter solstice, the official first day of winter. Actually we have winter here for a while. Today was very cold, with high winds and high wind chills. We also...
Gordon's Story from 30 November 2008 - Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 9:52
Our quadracycling season was ended by a pretty good snowfall and the associated salt that the city dumps on everything in sight. But the same is not the case in other parts of...
Some People Are Still Quadracycling - Tuesday, December 2nd 2008 18:53
Even though here in Ottawa we have been too snowed in (and the roads salted) to take our Rhoades Car out, that is not the case in every part of Canada. As our correspondent in...
Season's End? - Tuesday, November 25th 2008 15:06
After the early part of November turned out to be really nice, not surprisingly things cooled off rapidly. We have been out for a few short rides in the past couple of weeks,...
Double Indian Summer - Wednesday, November 5th 2008 20:03
This week has turned out to be a amazingly gorgeous week. If climate change is to blame then this is one of the better effects it produces. Normally we have high temperatures of...
Hallowe'en Quadracycling: Pranks and Cranks - Friday, October 31st 2008 18:20
We thought that the weather would put an end to quadracycling this past week when we got 11 cm (4 1/3 inches) of snow. We even had some drifting snow as well! Yes this is pretty...
Indian Summer - Saturday, October 11th 2008 17:55
We have had our first frost and now the temperatures have returned from last week's chilly daytime highs to the 20 degree Celsius mark, which is the very definition of Indian...
The Last Day of Summer - Sunday, September 21st 2008 20:11
Today was a really gorgeous day, 14C and sunny with almost no wind, perfect for a quadracycle ride. So we went out mid-afternoon around the local area, logging 9.7 km on the...
On the Road With the New Derailleurs - Monday, September 8th 2008 14:32
After doing a short run last week to check out the new dérailleurs, we parked our quadracycle in the garage for the weekend. On Saturday it rained 17 mm, which is quite a lot....
Testing the Shimano Derailleurs - Thursday, September 4th 2008 13:24
After installing the two new rear Shimano dérailleurs this morning we went out for a ride to try them out and make sure that they were adjusted properly.We did a short trip of...
Cracked Derailleurs Fixed - Hopefully Permanently! - Thursday, September 4th 2008 9:47
I think we have this problem solved, hopefully on a permanent basis.I talked to both Beth Baker and David Rhoades at Rhoades Car yesterday. They were both, as always, very...
Cracked Derailleurs Again - Monday, September 1st 2008 13:38
We have been doing a fair amount of quadracycling recently, especially since the weather improved about two weeks ago and it has mostly stopped raining! We are now up to 424 km...
A Real Summer Day - Sunday, August 17th 2008 17:28
I love to listen to the hum of the tires of our Rhoades Car, as it runs down hills. We usually forgo pedalling and take a break on the down-slopes.The up-slopes sound different....
August Proves Slower Than Anticipated - Wednesday, August 13th 2008 13:13
Well we had hoped that August would be a drier month than the last four have been and that we could get some more quadracycling in. That hasn't been the case.After the rain...
A Beautiful Start to August - Monday, August 4th 2008 12:45
Yesterday was Sunday and we mulled over doing the Lucent-Alcatel Sunday Bike Day. Ruth was keen to do something different instead, so we took a bus to the north end of Blackburn...
The Summer of... - Wednesday, July 30th 2008 13:24
The summer of 1967 is still referred to as the "Summer of Love". It seems likely that 2008 will be known as the "Summer of Rain" at least here in Ottawa and eastern Ontario.A...
The Gift - Sunday, July 27th 2008 13:08
Today was a real gift. We woke up this morning and checked the weather - no rain in the forecast until this afternoon! That has been a rarity this summer so far.We mulled over...
A Break in the Rain - Friday, July 25th 2008 11:39
After a couple more days of pretty solid rain we managed to get out quadracycling again today.This summer is turning out to be as bizarre as the winter was and as bizarre as the...
At Last, A Day For a Quadracycle Ride - Monday, July 21st 2008 13:25
We freely admit that we haven't been getting out quadracycling as often as we hoped this summer. Today was our first ride in two weeks.There have been a number of reasons for...
Taking Advantage of Some Good Weather - Sunday, July 6th 2008 13:29
As I have mentioned earlier in this diary, the weather has been generally appalling in Eastern Ontario this spring and early summer. All through May and June it just didn't...
Errands and Such - Saturday, July 5th 2008 18:53
This morning we had a few errands to run, Ruth had to drop off a prescription at Loblaws pharmacy and then pick it up an hour or so later. The morning dawned clear and...
Independence! - Friday, July 4th 2008 14:00
Today is US Independence Day, not something that is commonly celebrated here in Canada, but it was actually not raining today so a quadracycle ride was definitely in order!We...