Trying some new components

Today I was able to ride to work, my legs have been pretty tired the past few days training for the racing season. I bought some new parts for the Trek & have been wanting to try them out since earlier this week. This morning was the first chance I had to use them. I installed some Ergon Grips on the Trek. Charles from The Bike Store said he has some on his mountain bike & loves them. I thought they might help stop the numbness I get in my right hand from riding to & from work each day. I guess I still have to tweak the adjustment, my right hand did get a bit numb during the ride, but not as much as before. Here's what the grips look like:

I also added a bar end mirror which lets me know when something big is coming up behnid me. I thought about a glasses mounted mirror, but the bar end one is much larger & I can see better with it. It worked great on the way in this morning. Hoping for good weather the rest of the week to ride into & from work & run errands all weekend.

Back to the commute

I know it's been quite some time since I've posted anything here, but the computer is still down & I've been out of town for work & just getting back into my normal routine. The price of gas here at home is just over $4 a gallon or just below it. I've actually ridden to work 4 days this week. They changed my work schedule, instead of working 5 day a week for 8 hours, I now work 4 days a week, 10 hour shifts. Traffic on the way home is a bit more of a problem than before, but it's something we all have to deal with. Tuesday was the first day of my commuting week and the legs just really weren't there. That has something to do with racing over the weekend & doing 40 miles on Monday. They felt heavy both trips. The rest of the week it seemed like I had no problems and on Friday especially, my legs felt like they were coming around to where they were before heading out of town. I just found out that one of the other people from work just bought a hybrid bike to begin commuting. I'm trying to find out what his riding schedule to work is so we can hook up & ride in together at least part of the ride. I'm looking foward to this coming weeks commute and I just have to look at the gas prices to see why I get up at 4 am each morning for my commute. Here's to safe commuting to everyone.