Tandem Silhouette

Warm sun,

Good friends,

Does it get any better?

Physician Heal Thy Self

I love what can be found out there on the interwebs.

Take this sign posted in a BP station:

Thanks for the find BlueNoser!

I drive a car so I take 

my share of responsibility for 

our societies oil lust

 but I am averaging around 

6,000 miles a year or

less than I put on my bikes.

Minneapolis Bicycling Rocks!

Here's one reason why:

Here we see public bike racks, not unique to just this street, so you know when you ride downtown on one of the many trails or bike lanes that lead into downtown, you will have a place to lock up.

Making a city bicycle-friendly isn't just about bike lanes or bike paths, it's putting together the whole picture.

It really helps, as shown in this bicycle view in Google (which also rocks!), that the bike lane saturation just in the downtown Minneapolis area looks like this:

The bright green lines are dedicated bike trails, the rest of the green lines are bike lanes on streets. I don't know what other cities are like but I think that's a lot of green.

New Glasses!

As I age my eyes are changing and I have been outfitting myself with an increasingly large collection of glasses. I think these new ones just might be my favorites so far...

Satisfaction

She said, go read this

You just might like it. I did

I've said enough is

Bikepooling in Minneapolis

Last weekend 

we went to see 

the Twins play 

in their new stadium

It's a cool stadium

(outdoors, I might add)

with some awesome 

transportation options

Light rail on one side,

Parking ramps on another.

My favorite part though is the 

Cedar Lake Trail (America's first bike highway!)

Comes in on another side

with plenty of on-site bike parking.

Bikepooling just got 

easier in Minneapolis!

Bit by the security dog

Funny isn't it that the guard dog that's supposed to protect the corporate computers brought them down. I'm guessing this will be a bit bigger than Mcafee is letting on at this point.

Is this a good time to say that I love my Mac?

Beercation in 5/4 time

Betty and the Giant

In The Church of the Big Ring there are few holidays as important or joyous as the Road Bike Season opener. It often comes up suddenly with little warning as it did today. I started the day on the commuter running errands and while there was no question that there would be riding today, I didn't realize the high holiday was upon us and figured there would still be the CostCo run, perhaps another spin up to see George. 

I assumed it would be more miles on lumbering steel and touring tires.
Noodling through Saturday chores while the temp rose and the threatened rain sulked away without accomplishing a single patch of drizzle. I've had Saturdays like that so I understood as the skies lighted and the wind dropped. I've been screwing around with my road shoes, another story for another day, and thought I may have come up with a configuration that I had not yet tried.

I should have seen it as the harbinger of the high holiday but I missed it. TOB has a new horse in the barn and had spent the morning putting on svelte new shoes, bars and grooming it so her ride choice was clear. So off we go down the street each marveling at our handiwork but we don't make it past the end of the block before Betty's mournful wailing fills the neighborhood.

Even when we don't detect the opening rituals of the high holiday, the bikes know and won't risk missing out on the festivities. So it's a quick U turn, shoe swap and Betty is right side up for the first time in months.

And that's how it came to be that Betty and the Giant spent the day frolicking on the tarmac, celebrating the return of skinny tire days.

Stud-less in Minneapolis

I'm usually the last guy to remove the studded tires but I took them off a few weeks back and am happy I did.

Feels like I'm riding around nekkid but without the blushing...