Okay, got out for about a 24-mile jaunt on the Jeunet. Lovely weather in the Boston area today, sunny, low 60s though a bit windy.
This path runs along the muddy river, just about a mile from my house:
I headed to Arnold Arboretum, which had lots of people tooling around. It has two hills to climb. Here’s the first:
And the second with a view of downtown Boston:
Eventually I made my way to the path that runs along the Charles River; this is a falls in Watertown:
Early in the ride my Sturmey Archer gears got out of whack, and I realized that the cable guide on the seat tube was slipping. The clamp is slightly too large for the metric seat tube, so I shimmed with what I could find on the ground: a chunk of what looks like cigarette filter:
Probably not a long-term solution as it’ll act like a little sponge and create excellent conditions for rust to form. Here’s the tale of the tape. A bit more than 1k feet of total climbing, and by the last mile, my bars had loosened in the stem clamp and my wrists hurt from the bar angle. Hmm.
