Yesterday's ride

Somehow my blogging has ended up a day ahead.

Here is Thursday's ride photos. Sure enough, as promised, the bicycle I now ride palps tires in a blue colorway and bar tape and a saddle in a silver colorway. Here is a review:

The new one fits just a tiny bit better than the old one. It is a very subtle difference, not a reach issue, maybe a slightly more comfortable feeling angle or something. In any case, it is very subtle and not terribly significant. On the down side the old one has the saddle that I am used to and changing that piece of equipment at this point in the season may not be a good decision. Back on the upside, FirstLOOK is a very, very lightweight bicycle but NewLOOK is absolutely scary light. That bicycle weighs nothing, nothing at all.

Here is a NewLOOK at the Martin Olav Sabo bridge where the Midtown Greenway crosses Hiawatha Avenue.I have now tried all of what seem like reasonable alternatives to me and that bridge is the best way across that busy thoroughfare.

I rode over to Flanders. Here is a NewLOOK at Flanders. I wanted to go there to do a comparison of NewLOOK and the used LOOK 585 that I recently saw on sale there for $4,000.First, it is still there. $4,000 seems pretty high for a used bicycle. The Flanders LOOK is a red Large, the same frame size as mine. The wheelsets are the same, Ksyrium ES anniversary, the ones with the single red spoke. Both have silver bar tape, although mine is Fizik, Flanders is Deda. Flanders has a LOOK seatpost, I would like that, mine is Easton. My gruppo is Chorus, the Flanders LOOK sports SRAM Red. Fairly obviously, I prefer Chorus.

So the Flanders LOOK is indeed a way nice bike. I believe that an objective evaluation would determine that NewLOOK is at least as nice, I think most evaluations would conclude that mine is the one that is nicer. I do not believe that a used bicycle is worth three-fourths of retail, no matter how nice it was to begin with. A used LOOK 585 just isn't going to get many offers of $4,000. I know for a fact that I paid quite a bit less than that for mine.

On the way home I got a photo facing down river from the Franklin Avenue bridge. That's the Soo Line railroad bridge near the city limits on the east side and near 24th Street on the west.What happened to fall color?

Probable rain on Friday, possibly turning to snow on Friday night, continued mixed precipitation or snow through the day on Saturday with possibility of snow accumulating, all possibly continuing overnight Saturday and on into Sunday. Cheery.

Every one feels like it might be the one but this ride may in fact have been the last one.

I almost forgot, this evening in Angers, FC Nantes has continued its string of good results on the road with a 1-1 draw against Angers SCO. FC Nantes played without two starters including its leading scorer but still extended their recent run to eight games without a loss including four straight road draws. FC Nantes remains 7th in the table but loses ground as measured against the third place club.

Next up is an away match next Saturday against ASC Romagné in the first match this season for FC Nantes in the Coupe de France. ASC Romagné is an amateur side from the Division Supérieure Régionale (DSR), a league five levels below the level of Ligue 2. According to the FC Nantes website the game will be played in Fougeres Ille-et-Vilaine in the region of Bretagne (Brittany).