Drink and ride
Monday 4 April 2005 ◷ 00:55
The weather was nice, so I got all my biking-gear together and went for a little ride. Not to far, because the pope died and my Italian bike might be catholic (probably the same reason that Ferrari only used first gear when passing me), or it was the first time out this season and I wanted to check if the brakes and stuff were still working. It also was the first time I went without a bidon and used a professional plastic bag in my backback and a tube from that to drink.
The drinking from the tube thing went surprisingly well. Filling it was the biggest problem, because it needs about 15 inches of clearance under the tab, and a regular tab doesn't. So the water got in via a cup. The filled bag then has to be put in the backback with the point where the tube is attached to the bag on the bottom, so if it's not attached right all the contents will leak out. But that didn't happen. Then I'd think that communicating barrals would cause the thing to drain as soon as the end of the tube got below the bottom of the bag. But that didn't happen. Leading the tube out of the Lowe Alpine Contour is easy because it's made for it, the only thing I needed to do was experiment with the length of part of the tube sticking out to make drinking comfortable, which is a choice between a long dangling tube that is usable even when looking the other way, or a short one that makes drinking look like whispering into a hidden microphone. Anyway, it needs to be long enough to make the end of the tube hit the dirt on the ground when you put your backpack down.
And of course I could put up a little graph of the trip from the Ciclosport 436, but this weekend I also tried to get the 2.6.11.6 kernel up and running, and there is only time for that much nerdy stuff in a weekend.