Despite feeling kind of badass riding around Detroit and the metropolitan area with my headlamp to light my adventures, I decided to install my first bike gadget, a new bike headlight. It was pretty simple. I started by taking the old one off with a phillips screwdriver. An aside - I finally found where the spiders that created webs last year on my bike hung out - in the cracks of my old headlight! Back to the story - after I took the old gadget off, I installed the new one without any tools. It was a piece of cake and I felt super kick ass that I installed it in just minutes while also preventing future spiders from spinning their webs all over my bike in 2013.
Feeling pretty confident, I decided to install my other new exciting gadget. It's one of those neat bike computers that calculates your distance, speed, time, and who knows what. Well, it was neat until I went to use it. Do you see the directions in the picture? Unfortunately, they are not well written and I was lost within minutes. Actually, the only thing that seemed to work was that the computer now kept time, which meant it was keeping track of how long it took me to figure out the directions. AHHH!!! The pressure! After an hour and twenty-one minutes, I gave up and decided to write this blog. The good news is that I didn't completely give up. The better news is that I went to the manufacturer's website and found a very easy video to follow that has directions on how to install this gadget (thank goodness)! In this day and age, they should have just saved the paper and wrote that on the box. Hopefully, I can wake up early enough to install it in the morning before the big bike/bus commute of 2013!
Lastly - just out of curiosity - if you have a bike computer, how many miles do you put on your bike a year? I'm not talking about the miles from biking on a trail for fun - I'm talking about commuting. I ask because I want to set a goal for 2013.
Cheers to new bike gadgets, more bike/bus adventures in 2013, and a regional transit authority (that hopefully works)!
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