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 about 7C at this time in November and can expect snow showers every now and then, but this whole week we are experiencing temperatures in the high teens. Today it hit 19C, which is t-shirt weather around here!
So we took advantage of the beautiful day and went quadracycling for 10.4 km around the area. This trip was a regular "errand run" to return a couple of library books and also make a grocery stop. At the library we used the "drive-through" book return.
As usual at the grocery store I ended up staying with the bike while Ruth went in to do the shopping.
The quadracycle caught the eye of a very tall, slim woman who couldn't help stopping to ask about it. It turned out that she is visiting from Montana and lives in a small town there. She has been car-free for ten years, which is quite a feat in a small rural US town! The quadracycle always seems to attract the interest of interesting people!
This run was also a chance to check out the loctite on the pedal and see if it did the trick. Loctite is a great stuff - I have used it a lot in the aircraft world where if things fall off, the consequences are usually more serious and so I really trust the bloo-goo! It held just fine on the pedal. We will monitor it for a while and see if there are any problems. It would be a better solution than washers!
Price of gas locally today $0.867
Total quadracycling for 2008 so far - 491.8 km
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