This was the warmest day of the year so far, and I wanted to make the most of it. The first task for today was to shoot some flowers before the winded picked up.

After that, time to start my cycling season. The first impression when I picked up the bike was that it was light – no trouble lifting this one off the ground… My thigh muscles were not quite happy about pedalling up the hills, but I wasn’t entirely dead beat when I finished my trip so it’s good news.

Later in the afternoon I swapped the bicycle for a motored version and took out the Tricker for a longer ride. I wasn’t sure how comfortable it would be to ride for 30+ km at one stretch, but it turned out to be just fine – I had mostly worried that my hands would go numb, but there were no such problems. In fact, the biggest worry turned out to be my cornering (no surprises there, really). When came into a sharp curve, I was horrified to notice that I was heading awfully straight in relation the curve in the road. Problem was of course that I wasn’t leaning enough, but I had enough presence of mind to release the gas so I managed to stay on the tarmac, if with the smallest of margins. The funny thing about this curve is that I always seem to misjudge it – winter and summer, I find myself breaking in the middle of the bend when I’ve once again driven too fast into it. And it’s not like I don’t know that the curve is there! Anyway, this one almost-mishap aside, the ride went smoothly and it feels like I’m getting more and more confident on the bike after every trip. At one point I even caught myself thinking about something completely else than the bike and the road!