Aug 15 2008
Tour de Fat is coming to Portland on Saturday. The event includes a bicycle parade, live performances, and a “Carpocalypse Now” funeral procession. The funeral for the car of one lucky person who decides to turn in the keys and title to their car for a new bicycle. Here is a YouTube video from when [...]
Aug 14 2008
While killing time at work I came across a YouTube video about a bike rack design contest in New York. At the end of the video as the reporter locks his bike to a bike rack which looks like a dollar sign, David Byrne front man for the “Talking Heads” and participant in the contest [...]
Aug 13 2008
Have you ever wondered how far you actually drive when you take that short trip to the grocery store or bank? It doesn’t seem far and because you don’t think you have time, you decided to drive your car instead of riding your bike. By choosing to do this you missed an opportunity to get [...]
Aug 11 2008
What started out to be a bicycling oriented long weekend failed to materialize. This is because I was called at home to come in to work and cover for a co-worker who has a “mission critical” job. I ended up covering Saturday and Sunday, thus I feel like I am sleep deprived on Monday and [...]
Aug 07 2008
Last night I was thinking I have been doing a lot of commuting, but little recreational riding. So I decided I was going drive into work today, take Friday off , making it a long weekend and to start it off I was going to go for a joyride before work. I rode a 30 [...]
Aug 04 2008
Here is a YouTube video a friend sent me after I was telling her about riding too hard up a hill and how I wanted to ride it again so I could get faster. Somehow after sucking wind up a long steep grade I do not feel like this. Maybe I should try some visualization [...]
Aug 03 2008
Yesterday while I was cruising along through the neighborhood in the bike lane, I had a C-Tran bus riding along side my rear wheel. I could catch glimpses of the bus in my peripheral vision and could hear it in close proximity while it was hugging the white line of the bike lane. As you [...]
