Getting familiar with the folding bike

Flowers popped up everywhere in our garden, and in our neighborhood.  Sun feels so good nice and warm, bright and cheerful. 

For a moment I wanted to switch back to my good old Novara instead of  my Schwinn folder.  But I didn't.

The more I study and ride it, the more my curiosity and challenging spirit come up.  I want to be able to ride it as well as possible.

Today we both got terrible small backache from morning, but we rode for an hour with slow speed starting anyway...
I checked my Schwinn folder using 5th or 6th gear for start.  And even on quite an upslope I could start in 5th gear kicking my foot on the ground and the other foot pedaling combination.  That was surprising!  I could start without spinning too much which happened with the 3rd and 4th gear before.
And I rode through using 5th, 6th and 7th the most of time.
I just need more time to figure out which gear to choose correctly in any road.  That's fun.

I got more fun to purchase this. Bicycle on the coffee maker!

I have lost interest in drinking coffee lately, but the french press made me happy and coffee enjoyable to drink.

Bicycle on the plate

For cheering up our bicycle spirits??!
Anyway it was fun to use them for serving homemade pizza and salad today.

Changed the plan for today

There were place to go and ride.  But we changed our plan today.  Because we both felt sluggish this morning.

After all it would be the best that we ride whenever we want to ride, however we want to ride.

Instead of the adventure ride, we stayed at home to do gardening a little by little.

For our lunch:  Corn soup with fennel seeds, smoked salmon, crackers, and beer.