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mousmeOkay, it's technically not spring until Friday, but I took out my bicycle today and rode it to work. I am very pleased.
I am not in quite as good shape as I was last summer when I was cycling every day, but I did make it all the way up the hill that gave me problems the first few times last year, so I feel vindicated.
It's a glorious day, and I am feeling very virtuous.
I do wish, however, that it hadn't taken quite as long for me to get my stuff together today. I had to get the bike out of the shed, find my panniers, fix the chain which had come off the... umm... spiky turny thing whose name escapes me, and transfer a bunch of stuff out of my purse and into my panniers. Then I had to find my colder-weather cycling gear, pack my work clothes, and generally do stuff that I had taken for granted last year because it had become habit.
I'm pretty sure that now that I have all my ducks in a row it'll go faster. For the moment, though, I kind of felt like I was flailing around like a headless chicken.
Negotiating packing my lunch in all this was an added complication as well. Still, I prevailed, and here I am at work, none the worse for wear.
I am not in quite as good shape as I was last summer when I was cycling every day, but I did make it all the way up the hill that gave me problems the first few times last year, so I feel vindicated.
It's a glorious day, and I am feeling very virtuous.
I do wish, however, that it hadn't taken quite as long for me to get my stuff together today. I had to get the bike out of the shed, find my panniers, fix the chain which had come off the... umm... spiky turny thing whose name escapes me, and transfer a bunch of stuff out of my purse and into my panniers. Then I had to find my colder-weather cycling gear, pack my work clothes, and generally do stuff that I had taken for granted last year because it had become habit.
I'm pretty sure that now that I have all my ducks in a row it'll go faster. For the moment, though, I kind of felt like I was flailing around like a headless chicken.
Negotiating packing my lunch in all this was an added complication as well. Still, I prevailed, and here I am at work, none the worse for wear.
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Date: 2009-03-18 02:25 am (UTC)If it's up front near the pedals, it's a chainring, if it's down back on the wheel, it's a cog. The whole assembly of chainrings (and the cranks that turn them) up at the front is typically called a crankset, and in the back, if you have several cogs, there are two different names for the set of them. The set is a cassette if any ratchething mechanisms live in the wheel, and you can take the cogs off one-at-a-time. A single assembly containing all the cogs and the ratcheting mechanism, that you have to remove from the wheel as a single piece is a freewheel. Both cassettes and freewheels require specialized bike tools for their removal, so you're probably best off just referring to the collection of cogs as "cogs".