Spring Riding

I've been doing a lot of riding around town lately, mostly on my mountain bike, but I did do my very first ride on a semi road bike on Friday. Actually it was Brian's cross bike, which is basically a road bike with knobby but skinny tires.

I kept forgetting that I was riding an almost road bike and got stuck in some mud and almost launched myself off the bike when I hit a curb really hard on the Coastal Trail.

I really like riding this bike, despite the fact that I couldn't figure out how to shift and essentially did a 35 mile ride in one gear. But this bike goes fast!

Here are some photos I took last week of the many surfaces of spring riding in Anchorage.

Dry pavement!

Volcanic Ash...

Frozen mud flats...

Puddles...

Ice gravel...

Slush...

Roots...

Dried leaves...

And yay! I even found a dry patch of dirt trail...