{"id":742,"date":"2008-11-25T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2008-11-25T21:56:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T02:56:55","slug":"cool-weather-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/cool-weather-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Weather Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_2735.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/79881-2\/IMG_2735.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"New SIDI Bullet 2 shoes with my old(er) SM-SH51 cleats after a first ride. They work well.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I finally put the cleats on my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidiusa.com\/bullet2.html\">Sidi Bullet 2<\/a> shoes, covered them with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlizumi.com\/product.php?mode=view&#038;pc_id=50&#038;product_id=1172061\">Pearl Izumi AmFIB Moutain Shoe Covers<\/a>, and went for a bike ride. Beyond the new shoes and covers I also wore the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/bike-clothing-and-otherwise\/\">gloves I purchased last month<\/a>, BDU pants, my old blue North Face jacket from <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/alaska_1996\/\">my Alaska adventure in 1996<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.descenteathletic.com\/index.php?do=products_spring_08&#038;parentID=438&#038;catID=442&#038;subCatID=&#038;productID=937\">Descente Coldout Beanie<\/a> under my helmet. I did not feel cold, nor did my toes get numb. This is good.<\/p>\n<p>The ride was 13.5 miles, and in just over an hour I went from my house, up to River Bends park, through the 5km hiking trail, out of the park, down to 21 Mile, back past Schoenherr, through a subdivision, then back to my house. At one point while riding someone in a car yelled something at me, but I&#8217;m not really sure what it was. It may have been &#8220;Ghostrider!&#8221;, but I couldn&#8217;t really tell. Weirdly, I caught up with them at the next light (about a mile away) and ended up passing them as I crossed.<\/p>\n<p>My head and tail light both worked great for the whole ride, but it was a bit spooky riding along in the woods alone, knowing that it was unlikely that anyone else would be out there any time soon. At one point I turned the light off just to see how difficult it was to ride, but the only markings I had to follow were the dim blue\/grey slush and snow on the path. I quickly turned the light back on. That said, there was something really pleasing about riding along seeing small snowflakes fluttering down and streaking past me, and in the woods I saw at least one set of eyes looking back at me in the brush.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m set for cool weather (~32\u00b0F\/0\u00b0C) riding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally put the cleats on my new Sidi Bullet 2 shoes, covered them with Pearl Izumi AmFIB Moutain Shoe Covers, and went for a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/cool-weather-riding\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cool Weather Riding<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}