Another one done, squared

President Fillmore completed.

Took a few days longer than I expected too. I suppose I got lazy.
President Fillmore is an interesting one in some (weird) respects. Whenever he's mentioned I always think of the Simpsons as he was one of the 'Mediocre' Presidents.

Not sure I'd call him mediocre though. Second Vice-President to ascend to the oval office, last President who was a member of the Whig party. Amazingly for a sitting President he failed to gain the party's nomination for the 1852 election.

He also ran in 1856 for the so called "Know nothing" party. Love that.

Unfortnately, I suppose, he was really mixed up in the slavery problems, especially with the various compromises that seemed to do more harm than good.

Still, he started the Whitehouse Library and sent Commodore Perry to Japan. There's a couple of good things. :)


On to different endevours. Went on a 20 minute ride today, ok, 18.5 minutes :) This time I just rode the local streets, covering around 6.5 km. I forgot that cars were so much 'fun'. But being the weekend I was worried that the track would be being used for a race, so I decided not to go down there and see. To be honest it also saves around 30 minutes total travel time getting there and back again and the kiddies weren't behaving the best.

Little bit of leg and knee soreness. Need to build them up a bit :)

Oh yes, the bike. Stole this pici from their website :)

Bike

Well I finally got out and rode my bike yesterday, after picking it up nearly two weeks ago.
Bit of a saga really. Brought it home but didn't get a chance to take it out of the box for something like 3 days. Another couple of days to finish putting it together and, well lets be honest, to really stuff up adjusting the derailers.
So wait a few more days, well swearing, and in the end take it back to the shop and ask them to "adjust" it for me.

Then another week goes by before I get a chance to hit the track, yesterday.

Yes a track. About 10km down the road there's a criterium track, and since I've not ridden in 20 years I thought that a crit track would be a good place to get used to it again. No cars.

Hard on the knees though :)

Got my 20 minutes, though I took a little break lol. Next ride tommorow.
Maybe a photo.
It's a HASA R4 by the way. About the cheapest new bike you can buy in Oz.