Last ride of the year
33 km out to Linnemann junction and back, with a brief pause to photograph the southbound Coast Starlight.
It may not be the most practical bicycle for randonneuring, but it will certainly do the job for me. And, as a side benefit, if I can get my average speed on this thing back up to the 24 urban kph I (briefly) was doing before I clamped on the heavy iron ball, it will make just about any bobtail bike seem like a screamingly light gofast vehicle (that is assuming that I ever want to get a second bicycle; I don’t have any objections to touring on a longtail, and when I’m paddling around the city there are some real advantages to riding a bicycle that can carry bucketloads of cargo.)
(My december plans of running at least one 100km loop every week were rudely interrupted by the fall snowstorm, but I still managed to get somewhere on the order of 3000km under the wheels of the thing before the year came crashing rudely to an end. Perhaps I will do better next year.)