Saturday, December 19, 2020 -- Beautiful day for a bike ride -- Manhattan Beach Pier & Marina Del Rey

A lot of people on the bike path and the pier area.

Parking lots are full.

 

Bike shoes failed again ("bodge" failed) -- trying a different adhesive/bonding material...

My "bodge" super glue repair of one of my biking shoes failed today.

It didn't completely separate but it's getting close.

I already had this product.

Decided to try it.

You have about 4 minutes after you mix it.

Actually, closer to 2 to 3 minutes before it starts to harden...

The packaging says it sets up in 4 hours.

I'll give it more like 12 hours...

Will know tomorrow, when I go for a ride, if it worked or not.

 

The sugar maple has dropped almost all it's leaves...

Huge leaves...

The two ficus need trimming... (I started on the bottoms...)

So does the "strawberry" tree...

Thursday, December 17, 2020 -- Bike Path at the end of the Waterfront Powerplant & Manhattan Beach Pier

You can see Manhattan Beach Pier in the distance.

This is the bike path as it just passes the powerplant and reaches the end of the houses along the strand.

Panorama picture.

The surf looked excellent today.

The picture doesn't show it but you can just make out the right end tip of Catalina Island...

Atmospheric clouds...

 

"Wheels" rental electric scooter (no pedals)...

Someone "dumped" this rental scooter in our neighborhood.

It you take a close look, it's very beat up.

I wouldn't ride something this beat up...

Twist throttle...

Right brake lever says "front brake" on it.

On bicycles in the US, the RH lever usually works the rear brake.

On motorcycles, the RH lever usually works the front brake.

Put my bike next to it for a size comparison.

14" X 2.125" tires.

Interesting.  Helmet required.  License required, obey traffic laws, 18+...

But, no license plate, brake lights, etc.

 

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 -- Manhattan Beach Pier -- Crashed... again...

A beautiful day.  High of 72 F and light winds... 

Catalina in the distance.

Never get tired of looking at and being near the ocean...

A lot of people on bikes today (a little more than usual for a Wednesday).

Malibu in the distance...

My usual bench is taken today.

Sat on a bench on the opposite side...

I crashed again.

I was transitioning from the service road to the bike path at this point (to avoid lots of sand on the service road, coming up...)

I was going very slow (5 MPH?) to make this sharp left turn.

I apparently turned left a little too soon.

Did not see the edge of the concrete section (covered by sand).

As I turned, I caught the edge of the concrete section and fell over...

The "gouged" area of sand in the "boxed" area is my front wheel/tire sliding across the edge of the concrete, instead of going over it.

During the fall, I banged my right shin against something (don't know if it was the concrete or something on the bike) and got a nice bump/cut.

Also got a 5 mm road rash patch on my right hand.

Overall, not much damage.

The bike got some sand on it but maybe because of landing on the sand, I didn't see any obvious damage.

Several people must have seen me crash, because I was asked if I'm OK by some people riding by and by some people walking on the bike path.  Nice of them to ask (some positive energy for a change).

Rode home with no further issues...

Still averaged 19.3 MPH.

I can't count how many times I've crashed on/off the bike...

In terms of falls, this was about as minor as it gets (short of having nothing happen to me or the bike).

The spare wheels are running on Continental Gartorskin on the front and Continental Grand Prix on the rear...

Bike Riding Glasses - Ear area falling apart...

The RH ear area of the glasses are falling apart.

These are old prescription glasses that I use just for bike riding (don't want to damage my everyday glasses from all the sweat).

Need to "bodge" this.

Don't know what to use.

2-part epoxy might be too hard a material.

Maybe an RTV sealer type of material that will stay somewhat flexible?