Ride Entry – 28th March 2010
by admin on Mar.29, 2010, under Security
Bike: Roly
Dstance: 23 miles
Lovely ride out with my son. I was going to do a pre-son ride but really couldn’t be arsed due to excess alcoholage the previous night and the clocks gong forwards and the need to end up getting up for about 6 to fit the rides and family visiting in all in the same day. Plus a visit to my sisters in the afternoon ment no track today. Still, this is the last three day week in Newcastle for quite some time (ever) so hopefully Sunday nights are now my own again, I’m hoping to be able to cycle to the track, do the track and then cycle back through the warmer months but we’ll see.
Sundays could be insanely cycle intensive if I start doing a big ride in the morning, then take my son out for a ride, then cycle to the track, then cycle at the track and then cycle back.
Anyway, this ride was great. My son moves nice and quick and is gaining road confidence quickly. Very, very windy though. We rode to the barn and then rode up over the big Chorley Old Road hill out of Horwich which is a nasty climb for anyone but my son seemed to cope OK, he only flagged a bit at the very top. And then we went downhill and he got to 40mph for the first time. Splendid.
In outher news I now have some trial contact lenses and have finally twigged on how to get them out easily. The method they showed me at the opticians blew goats. The way I do it now (as found on the internet), is pull my bottom lid down, look up, gently pull the lens down off my cornea with my thumb and forefinger and then pinch it. The opticians were saying I might have to press quite hard but once I was using this technique I hardly had to use any pressure at all. Obviously they forgot to write which lenses were for right and left on the boxes so at the moment I’m back to glasses until they can phone me back with the details. My son said I looked ‘ten times cooler’ without my glasses.
Next stop is somewhere that sells way cool sunglasses. I want some little black John Lennon style glasses, jet black. And some big aviators. And some big aviator mirrors. And some proper cycling glasses. A whole new set of fashion accessories has been opened up to me.
March 29th, 2010 on 12:43 pm
Lenses are awesome! The technique they described is similar to what I do but rather than apply pressure I kind of slide them towards my nose as I look up and they sort of slide out. Still if you’ve found a way that works for you, fair play.
March 30th, 2010 on 12:30 pm
I just push them out to the outside of my face (towards my ear). Then they crumple up and pop out. I remember how COOL it was when I first got them but many, many issues along the way.