June 4 - Princeton to Osoyoos

Bike log: 119 km, 837m of vertical, average speed 27.6 km/h

It should have been an easy day but a really strong headwind came up about 40km into the ride, and kept building for pretty much the whole day. For a lot of the last part, I was using the same gears as I did climbing up the hill out of Hope. The wind is very challenging, probably worse than hills. But tomorrow is a rest day!

Osoyoos is a favourite town of Cheryl's and mine, so we know a few of the local restaurants and attractions. We are going to go to dinner tonight at one of our old favourites, and since I am not riding tomorrow I'll have the first beer since leaving Victoria. By the way, I hope Swan's is getting through their first weekend with me away...I am relying on some friends back in Victoria to do their part and make sure they stay open.

We were planning on staying at Haynes point provincial campground, but it was full by the time we got here. I guess being the weekend that is not too surprising. We decided to stay at a cheap motel for the night rather than drive around to the various other campgrounds, since it was nearly 5:30 by the time we got here. I did go swimming in the lake though. Still pretty cold, I would not have done it except right after getting off the bike.

My bike speedometer stopped working for a bit today. I had to do some troubleshooting, and all I had was a sock and some oil. But what a lousy design! Can you believe there are 3 batteries in it? There are 3 separate modules, each with their own battery - receiver, transmitter, and LCD readout. Probably this is so they can have ultimate flexibility in their product line with minimal design effort, but it has not been thought out! (Sigma Sport, by the way, if you want my advise avoid them). Because they are separate modules, there are a couple of metal terminals which the receiver uses to communicate with the LCD display. This is not sealed to the elements and is made of plain old steel, not even stainless, so of course a bit of moisture gets in there and the contacts rust and the thing stops working. So the sock and the oil turned out to be just the ticket to get it going again.