Roundtrip of 24 miles in about 3 hours from home to Woodinville ๐
Combination of easy & peaceful riding at the Sammamish River trail (Marymoor Park to Woodinville) & hell of biking up the endless hill on Bel-Red from Marymoor to Bellevue.. (Hard lesson learned – Next time I will try via 520 Trail to Redmond… ๐ )
However, had gone thru a major fall off from bike – maybe the last time I fell off from bike in similar degree might be the one I had in my 1st grade ๐ฆ – trying to spin this fall off as a booster of fall off vaccination ๐
Good crack I found at the “Mid” point of daily work – Bike around the town at dawn as far as my butt allows ๐
This new habit has been in place about 2 weeks and has been extremely helpful in dealing with headaches… – and I have too many headaches nowadays ๐ Looking at Redmond campus construction made me think a lot about my life.
Trying to be back to casual cycling ๐ but now I have a family to go along with it…vs me simply getting one bike and ride..
This journey has been killing my wallet and research time for mini DIYs (Hitch, Car Rack, in Home Rack, Stand, PSI enabled pump, other accessories, and -most importantly- Bike Assembly etc) – didn’t realize this in past but bicycles are becoming more like a car ๐ฆ so many things to install, know and be careful to treat.
Now my butt pain is asking me to do something and I am yelling back at it like “Deal with it”.. ๐
Actually, part of the reason went thru the journey of DIYing was also because of this drill – Installing Trailer Hitch. Again, did the huge amount of search the web and youtube video to know what hitch fits odyssey, how to install, and ordered the ramp, hitch at Amazon and tried to install it.
As usual, everything was smooth in YouTube, while there are so many dumb challenges at my end. All the video suggested me doing with 2 or more people, but I don’t have that luxury – no one in my house can help – so brought out home various size of boxes and used those to balance and attached one hole after another hole. Also, used Ratchet Socket Wrench to installed it but it only went into few rounds and half tightened. ๐ฆ
So used my own ‘impact’ drill with socket but no luck -it was so weak only to make few more twists/advances, then learned that I need Impact Wrench ๐ฆ
As it was already evening, I had to leave the hitch as ‘not to fall off’ level and Amazoned overnight delivery ๐ – This must be the Copang experience I hardly ever had ๐ and magically package arrived at next day morning 6AM.
However, when Impact Wrench arrived tried to use the Ratchet socket but learned this doesn’t fit Impact Wrench and actually it is not recommended to be used with Impact Wrench anyhow ๐ฆ haha – so had to order another long Impact Socket set for Impact Wrench with same day delivery – ha ๐
Finally, all the bolt and nuts are 100% tightened – so wondered a bit on setting the Torque but as the car is old and I suspected some of miss-treading is there during install, thought this is good enough for me ๐
At the end dirty hands with some scratches, series of Amazon orders, and crazy searches on YouTube and Bing (Yes I work for Microsoft haha) mission complished ~80%: Now I need to unbox and install the ordered bike rack ๐