Haven't had a chance to write in several days; was a busy 3-day weekend for us.

Started by taking Friday off to attend Hoosier Hills Fiber Arts Festival. It was a fun road trip, and a lot of fun wandering around and seeing all the ... stuff ... for sale! Fiber in various stages of completion and all kinds of tools and gadgets for working with it.

Then on Saturday finally picked up both bikes! When they got in hers and assembled it on Friday, they called and let us know it was ready. But they'd forgotten to tell their mechanic/assembler that they had her old bike and needed to move all the accessories over. So when we went to pick it up, it was all nekkid, so we had to come back.

So Saturday we picked them both up and went for a couple rides. Mine's absolutely perfect, though I need to move the seat forward a bit. It's fast, very fast. We cruise at 16-17 mph fairly effortlessly. Hers is also very nice and she was able to ride much more confidently on it than on her old hybrid.

We do have a few issues to solve with hers though. She does have carpal tunnel syndrome -- and I mean actual, medically diagnosed, via nerve conduction (induction?) tests, carpal tunnel syndrome, not "oh, my wrist hurts sometimes, I have carpal tunnel". Of course on a road bike, your normal position is on the brake/shift hoods, and after a shortish ride her hand/wrist hurts a lot. We'll need to figure that out. I think her seat is back too far, which is causing her to have to lean forward too much, shifting too much of her weight forward onto her hands, but I'm no expert.

If anyone that reads this blog knows a lot about cycling with carpal tunnel, drop me a line at modemmisuser@gmail.com!

Didn't get a lot of flying in, as we had a lot going on all weekend, plus the weather kept threatening to be bad. That and the club's Public Day was Saturday so no open flying during the day then. I did get in my 3rd and 4th flight on the Helios on Friday evening though. This time with a 14x7 prop producing 900-1kw, and wow, this is a much better setup than the absurdly over-powered 13x10 setup. I'm going to try a 13x8 when I can get my hands on one, and I'm betting that will be perfect. This plane is everything I'd hoped it would be: big and easy to see, straight flying, and has no weird or bad characteristics. I'll be making a "review format" post for the Helios within the next couple days, and I'll try to do that with all future planes.