♫ should i get a set of white wall tires? ♫
Congregate was a pretty decent time, all told. I saw plenty of friends, played some music, including getting my own reasonably well-attended (in comparison to average attendance for musical performances for the weekend) last minute set when I filled in for my friend Keith on Friday afternoon (which went way better than my impulsive open mic set at the brewery on Thursday night), and generally enjoyed spending time in the company of nerds with my lovely spouse, even if we didn’t get out for our desired anniversary dinner.
As is my general pattern, I took the Monday after the convention off of work, to get some rest, and get all the other life stuff I didn’t get done over the weekend done. I did the shopping, got some laundry done, and picked up my bike from the shop, freshly adjusted and re-shod with new tires.
The new tires are slightly different than the old ones, a few milimeters narrower and edging a little closer to road tires than gravel, since that’s mostly what I’m riding these days. I took a quick eight mile ride around the village in the afternoon, and they seem to handle just fine; a little differently than the old ones, but well within tolerances.
They do, however, look weird right now. Apart from the different profile owing to the differences in tread pattern, they’ve got a reflective strip along the lower edge near the rim that the old tires didn’t, and all I see are whitewalls. Here’s a photo from the marketing materials for the tire brand (I haven’t photographed the bike as of yet):
It’s going to take some getting used to while I go ride the Miracle Mile with Billy Joel in my too-wide tie.
