Day 261: The Garminization of San Geronimo

I rode out to San Geronimo Valley late this morning to visit my friends “S” and “J.” They have a new Garmin GPS unit and I planned on helping them get it set up. They have multiples bikes, including a tandem, so the Garmin system is perfect for their needs. They can simply take the unit from bike to bike and everything will work. In the old days you’d need to have hardware for each bike, and then you’d even need to do additional set up with the cycling computer. Pheh!

When I arrived they were outside playing (my word) in their garden which is exploding at this time of year. Buds are on all of their fruit trees, blossoms here and there, and all of the plants look like they’re ready for spring to arrive. I really miss gardening.

After checking out some great family photos from various trips to Europe, we moved onto the Garmin 500’s setup. Garmin has this process nailed down, and have made it incredibly easy. I don’t think that we spent more than ten minutes getting everything set up.

We waited for about half an hour for the Garmin unit to take a full battery charge.  We were then ready to take the maiden voyage with Garmin on board. “S” and “J” mounted their tandem, and we headed on down the back roads of San Geronimo. After a quick spin up to White’s Hill, we parted ways.

On my way home I stopped in San Anselmo in order to take a photo of a lovely 1960’s Schwinn cruiser with a Springer fork. These were very attractive bikes in my opinion. That said, I doubt that the front fork provided much suspension. One of these days I’ll go Clunking on a vintage cruiser.

The change in the weather has allowed me to start doing longer rides again. During the past three days I’ve ridden for just under eight hours, and climbed 10,696 ft. I need to keep this pace up in order to meet my goals. ;-) Yahoo…