I’m really loving my new bike! I’ve been practicing throughout the neighborhood this week as well as the high school, and today I ventured further out. I didn’t necessarily plan on it, but as I was riding through one of the subdivisions next to us the gas light came on. DOH!! So I figured now was as good a time as any to venture down the main road to the gas station.

Getting the bike up to 55 (oops, a little speeding there, it’s only 45) was exhilarating! And then I ran into a new obstacle for me - wet roads. Lisa had mentioned that it rained hard in Uptown while she was getting her pedicure, but it hadn’t barely sprinkled at the house. So of course my luck would be that right as I reach the edge of traffic by all the stores, the road turns wet from the earlier rain. I turned carefully into the Home Depot parking lot and made my way to the gas station on the other side.

Pumped her up with 3 1/2 gallons of 91 octane premium and off I went again…somewhat slowly but not too bad. Then back on the road where it’s dry and off I went!

With my first gas filling experience with the bike under my belt, and a successful venture into new traffic territory, I came home pretty stoked! LOL

The bike had 186 miles on it when I filled her up with 3.5 gallons, so that makes it about…oh, 53 miles per gallon. About right since I’ve been doing all slower stop and go riding around the neighborhoods. We’ll see if I can push that up to 65 miles per gallon once I start traveling to work consistently.

With today’s venture out, I’m thinking I might ride into the office tomorrow!

Here’s a slideshow from recent pics, including new ones today…

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Posted: July 16th, 2008 at 8:20 pm.
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