Friday was another little slice of Summer daze, and I took the opportunity to hop on the Ocean Air Cycles Rambler and ride East, another round of the hills-and-traffic drill on paved bits of the Fells Escarpment alternating with coastal plain flats, good for the heart, lungs, legs, and wits. The Rambler's low-trail geometry and Pasela-derived
Soma C-lines danced lightly across the pavement.
Somebody in Medford really likes the Ford Thunderbird. Recent rides featured an apparent '57 T-bird; Friday's ride showed an early 2000's model, stream-lined rather than finned, parked in the same space. That's some serious attachment.
There was water coming and going: the Malden River, its banks leafed out in Summer dress, the beginning of a long, looping climb...
... and the
jets d'eau at Fellsmere park, the end of the Fellsway East roller coaster.
And of course there was the Mystic, crossed twice, but no pictures of that.
rod