I came to the conclusion after two hours of cuss words and fiddling with my bike spokes to take it to the dealer Downtube and have them rebuild the wheel, tune and repair the derailer. Hopefully find a solution once and for all to the broken spokes. I’ve been waiting too long for parts, struggling to much to make repairs and I want to throw some money at it and getting running good so I can up many more miles on it with quality dealer repairs.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the Memorial Day Weekend! Sunny and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 44 degrees.

It’s an absolutely beautiful weekend ☺ but I’m starting it off slow as I’ve needed to catch up on sleep for some time now and have a long list of things I’m working through before the bike store 🚲 opens at 11 am then I’m going to hammock camp for two nights in the back country, not in the Adirondacks. I’ve been packing my large backpack, I got a bug screen for my hammock last night. 🛠 Checked the tightness of the lug nuts on the truck and now I’m out walking 🚶.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 12th. North wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1914.

I’m looking forward to setting up camp ⛺ and a few quiet nights in the back country. But first I want to get the bike to the shop. 🏪 It looks like I have a little bit of legislative work to do this morning but I’ll get that done and then up to camp. 🌲

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.7° from the due south horizon (-2.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:41 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:23 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 8:55 pm, which is 54 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (216°) at an altitude of 53° from the horizon, 250,697 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:39 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 34 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 23rd. Light southeast wind. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1994.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:38 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 86 and 61 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.