Gareth and I have gone for two more rides in recent weeks: one around the neighborhood; one around the south end of State College.

Neither ride has proper Ride Journal entries.  We seem to have become incredibly lazy about that.

Our ride around the neighborhood illustrated a major problem – Gareth has a very hard time keeping his head upright when riding the Pino.  As a result, his head flops to the right, and I find myself completely unable to turn left since the handles then smack into his helmet.  Not good.

During our ride in State College, I stopped by RBR to ask if there was any update on our new stand (no) and to talk about possible solutions for the head issue.  After some quick brainstorming, I came up with the idea of talking to a local fabricator about making side rails for the seat that would extend from the bottom (where the handles are mounted) to the top where the seat cover crosses.  For the sake of support, I think we would also have to create a rail that goes across the top to keep the seat from collapsing inward, though I don’t know what that might do for Gareth’s comfort when he gets older.

After RBR, we visited the home of my cousin Alex and the home of some friends of our family.

I’m really getting frustrated with Hase at this point.  It has been three months now since I put in the order for the new stand.  While the bike is mostly working well for us, I’m starting to think that we should have just gone with Bilenky since the drive to Philadelphia would have been much quicker than waiting for parts from Germany.