You check your weather app before starting your ride. There’s time for you to head out and squeeze in some miles before that 50 percent shot at rain is coming your way — or not. The wildflowers are in bloom, the skies look clear but wait, those cows are lying down in that pasture over there.
Paying that old wives tale no mind you ride on because they’re probably just chewing their cud.
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