frame lock update

R. noticed that Belmont Wheelworks installed the Axa Defender upside down (and it can't be removed and reinstalled, which sort of makes sense now that I think about it). After a while, he figured out why (they would have had to remove the wheel, the fender, etc. to install it right side up). He was committed to correctly installing the other one on the Townie, but it turned out one bit wasn't quite long enough so now we are awaiting the alternate mounting bracket. Townie tubes are huge. Oh well.

bike fotos

http://pics.livejournal.com/walkitout/gallery/00003hkh

Pictures to make sense of all those words.

Today's Activities include: sunny! riding, walking and taking pictures

It did rain here and there but not everywhere. It was basically sunny and dry almost all day today and since it was the day-off for the Saturday-falls-on-the-4th, no normal traffic. Yay! T. and I did the usual in the morning. Then A. and L. visited and walked around the 1.8 mile loop I do with T., only on foot with A. in the stroller (there were two A.'s on this walk). R. made fajitas. I eventually retrieved T. who had had a great day hanging out outdoors with B. T. and I did the loop again on bikes, and then he wanted more so we did some more riding with him in the seat on the townie. By that time, it was well into evening and I was about dead.

Somewhere in there I got to take a bath while A. was napping. I'm in the middle of _Pedal Power_ which is not available on the kindle so perfect for reading in the tub.

And I took pictures of the townie and posted them in the scrapbook, which I posted about earlier.

We have absolutely no plans for the 4th, other than that I'm going to try to spend a bunch of it on the bike.

R. is still recovering from the stomach bug I had bad on Monday. It seems to take about 3 days to get over completely.

terrible headline, interesting summary

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/is-bicycling-bad-for-your-bones/?em

Obviously, bicycling is _not_ bad for your bones. But being a competitive road racer type bicyclist, where you exercise a ton and eat as little as possible and try to whittle your upper body down to the point where you're just barely strong enough to lift your bike IS bad for your bones.

Female Athlete Triad: it's not just for women! Men, too, an give themselves early onset osteoporosis by exercising too much and eating too little. Surprise.