the GOT bike

 Salem's snowy single speed Saturday solstice! Fortunately, I didn't augment that alliteration with the sssss of tube perforation, which is particularly painful in the cold. Yesterday was also the summation of shotgun season for deer hunting, but, again fortunately, that didn't impact me directly, or even catch me with ricochet, other than turning my light on early at 6:05am when I saw a hunter's flashlight coming through the woods towards me. Yes, the woods, like for this years summer solstice, I stuck to riding off of roads as best I could. After a 100 yard commute down my street, I headed into trails on state land, then soon connected to snowmobile trails after another half mile of roadway. That trail bisects the system of Canal Trails, which treated me to what I consider my first true bout of mountain biking after the operation.  It went pretty well, with me respecting that my ability to pull on the handlebars is still very limited. I walked over most log crossings ...