Today I reassembled my bike. Everything appears to be in good working order, to my relief — nary a busted spoke!

The bike, in pieces, stuffed in my bag.

The magic wrench that transforms two useless halves of a bicycle into one functional whole bicycle.

It lives!

And then I took it for a test ride in Alto Bario, an old neighborhood of tangled narrow streets (some of which are so steep that they’re equipped with trams).

Getting the first tingles of itchy feet. It will be good to finally get on the road Sunday.