the GOT bike

 Taking a break from thoughts on road design, I'd like to acknowledge that spring very much broke, and I do like it! Yesterday, after early 7:30am physical therapy, which happened after leaving home an hour earlier, IN DAYLIGHT!, I rode south into Chicopee for an errand. The weather was, well, pleasant, really pleasant. I wanted to ride more. I thought about heading home, swapping to a mountain bike, and looping around the Canal Trails in Belchertown, but then I realized hybrids, and I was aboard one, were given that name as they occupy a hybrid spot between mountain and road bike. They can do both, right? Plus, I've ridden lots of trails on lots of road bikes, and it was bound to manage better than those, so instead of turning around, I continued south to the trails of Chicopee State Park. Aside from a few exposed roots, those trails are pretty well suited to narrow, slick tires, and a rack full of a small load of errand results. I was having fun twisting and turning, and I wa...