Tour de Florida

After traveling with our bikes for over one thousand miles without use we decided to take them for a spin. Using our very reasonably priced Walmart bike pump Babbitt set out to inflate the tires and go for a test ride in the Walmart parking lot. BUT, as soon as he inflated the front tire on Katie's bike it blew up very loudly. It turns out the inner tubes were shot, so we took the bike to a small shop in New Port Richey. After getting the bike fixed we headed to Palm Harbor to test it out on the Pinellas County Trail, but as soon as Babbitt went to air up his front tire the same tragic event occurred to his bike. This left us with no choice but to head all the way back to New Port Richey to have the same repair done again at the same shop. In the end we now have four very safe inner tubes installed by the best bike shop in all of West central Florida.

Babbitt at Astro Cycle

Once we got both bikes working we decided to take a
14-mile bike ride at John Starkey Park
You'll notice Katie struggling a bit above...
14 miles was quite the undertaking for Katie on her first ride of the trip

After our ride we decided to cool down on the nature trail