Well every journey of however many miles begins with a single step. My step landed in a big puddle as I left my house for the train station this afternoon. Kunming is in the midst of its annual winter storm and I choose this fine occasion to leave the city for a few days. I had spent the morning running errands in a mixture of sleet, rain, and snow. Wind, too, of course. I went to my favorite bike shop and had a chat with my friend that works there while he added a luggage rack and mud guards to my newly acquired mountain bike. A friend of mine had recently gone back home and left me his Giant mountain bike free of charge. I had already installed disk brakes, a new crank set, bottom bracket,
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