JakeLucas Appreciation thread

[Ninja108]

Evening Jake,we've had to bust out our snow shoes

 

[JakeLucas]

all of three degrees below freezing, and the world is white with frost!

Jake, do you ride mostly pavement, or surfaces more interesting, on your rides?

In spring, summer and fall, I ride the asphalt bike trail in the evenings after work. On weekends I sometimes ride around the hills in the park.

But I don't ride at all in cold weather. The cold wind in my face gives me a 3-day headache.

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[JakeLucas]

Evening Jake,we've had to bust out our snow shoes

Ninja, how much snow do you have?

 

[Ninja108]

Not a ton but we have ice to go along with it,hence the snow shoes.

 

[dynk]

Jake, my friend Bruce on FB, (posts about my pics like you do) will be asking you to be friends in a few days when he gets his cellphone fixed. He is a real nice guy.

 

[JakeLucas]

Jake, my friend Bruce on FB, (posts about my pics like you do) will be asking you to be friends in a few days when he gets his cellphone fixed. He is a real nice guy.

Sounds good, Paul. Ill be watching for him.

 

[King Gumby VIII]

Good evening guys.

 

[JakeLucas]

Good evening guys.

Hi ya, Greg!

How's it going?

 

[King Gumby VIII]

Going fine for a Friday night.

 

[Kulindahr]

Brrr.

I went biking in sub-freezing temperatures for the first time in a long time. Rule number one wasn't hard to remember: don't breathe hard.

 

[JakeLucas]

Hi ya, Kuli!

How have you been?

Brrr.

I went biking in sub-freezing temperatures for the first time in a long time. Rule number one wasn't hard to remember: don't breathe hard.

Hurts, don't it?

Maybe I'm a wuss, but riding in cold weather gives me a 2-day headache. It doesn't seem like much fun, having to dress like this to ride.

 

[Kulindahr]

Hi ya, Kuli!

How have you been?


Hurts, don't it?

Maybe I'm a wuss, but riding in cold weather gives me a 2-day headache. It doesn't seem like much fun, having to dress like this to ride.

LOL

I just used alternating insulative and windbreaker layers, and took everything at half the effort I usually do. Okay, so the 2.5 mile ride took forty minutes, but we got there and delivered supplies, even out some mulch around seedlings.

I should have gotten back out there today -- I'm not sure the mulch is deep enough for 20 F weather, and I'd rather not lose any.

 

[King Gumby VIII]

Bump.
The king saves the thread from the depths of page two.

 

[JakeLucas]

Bump.
The king saves the thread from the depths of page two.

Thanks, Your Highness!

 

[King Gumby VIII]

The king is glad to help out...

 

[Kulindahr]

Jake, have you ever biked on a beach?

 

[JakeLucas]

Jake, have you ever biked on a beach?

Not on the actual beach.

Just on the sidewalk/pavement next to the beach in San Diego.

 

[Kulindahr]

Not on the actual beach.

Just on the sidewalk/pavement next to the beach in San Diego.

Ah -- you might not get the shock I felt, then--

Yesterday I was biking at the beach and had to dodge into what looked like ordinary beach sand, and geared down in preparation. Imagine my surprise when it felt like I was on pavement! Only the top of the sand was loose and dry; a quarter inch down it was a solid surface -- the top of an eight-inch frozen layer!

 

[JakeLucas]

Ah -- you might not get the shock I felt, then--

Yesterday I was biking at the beach and had to dodge into what looked like ordinary beach sand, and geared down in preparation. Imagine my surprise when it felt like I was on pavement! Only the top of the sand was loose and dry; a quarter inch down it was a solid surface -- the top of an eight-inch frozen layer!

Frozen?!?! yikes!

 

[Kulindahr]

Frozen?!?! yikes!

Shocker, huh? The recent heavy rains had soaked down and formed a layer six to eight inches thick just below the surface -- and there it froze.

Yeah, I actually dug through that layer to examine what was going on -- below it, the sand was mildly damp, and below that... <sigh> still dry.

But it's now turned back to rain, so my hoped-for bike ride across frozen dunes won't be happening.