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This one is a bit mundane compared to the previous interstate interchange video...but isn't that the point? To ride in such a way that interactions with traffic are the least exciting parts of the ride.

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...and even saw some Iowa.

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Saturday I drove the pedicab for a bride and groom then returned to entertain their guests with rides. I was interested in the reactions of the children when they realized we'd be rolling in the street. Absent their parents saying "don't play in the street" they adjusted quickly to the new paradigm. I may have occasionally slipped from the neutral passivity of a simple service provider by

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Everybody who owns a bike should ride it here on June 23.

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It's arguably smarter to ride on Spring (1 block west) or Dakota (1 block east) than Minnesota Ave. It's arguably more practicable, in this lane that is too narrow to safely share, to ride far enough left to make it more obvious to drivers that there really isn't enough room to safely perform this maneuver. It was a mental lapse on my part but it makes good TV.

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16 w/ The Boy 13.

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another car(e) free day in mpls.

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another 20 mile round trip to work. i rode singletrack today on the way home. without leaving the city.i love that. thanks FAST for making singletrack in the city.

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Combining my newly discovered Bakker Park Loop with a portion of my ride around the block.

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I was reviewing Garmin maps yesterday and learned a new route in SW SF. Today I got to try it.

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After the 30mph Main Ave downhill into downtown I asked The Wife if it was scary or fun. She said she stood up to catch the wind and that she trusts me. Woah.

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the trip to the farmers market included the coffee & donut ride.

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Now. Narrated.

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I saw Bruce today.

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From the BicycleDriving Google Group:"People have a widely affirmed right to travel in public in this country. People do not need a license to leave their house and travel on public roads. People are free to walk, ride a horse, bike, and travel by public conveyance in this country, free of scrutiny or license to travel in public on public rights of way.People DO, however, need to be licensed and

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Ride of Silence (oops, failed to record that loop)Leaders Park trail testingMonk's FAST MeetingWork for a bitHome sweet home1 flat tireNo injuries

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I've complained before - and I'm complaining again - we need some better graffiti artists in this town. This topic remains at the front of my mind because of the frequency I ride by this stunning piece of creativity.Sorry about the crappy cell phone photo. I didn't have much time to linger and get the shot setup just right. I gotta assume the creative courageous mind that put this down on

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This weekend is shaping up to be HUGE for people who ride bikes in Sioux Falls. Or maybe just me. Meh.Saturday The Boy 13 and I are slated to sweep the 10K Avera Race Against Breast Cancer. Once upon a time - January - I was thinking I'd run the 5K race. HAHAHAHA!!! This seems more fun. We get t-shirts too! I wear my PINK PROUDLY.While I'm doing that I won't be attending the first Falls Area

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First: the 2011 Sioux Falls Bike To Work Day commercial is in the can.Script/Casting: Mr BiteCamera/Production: Brad DumkeMorgan Freeman-like Voice: Bill MurphySecond:Third: In a bizarre progression of internet research I stumbled upon Sprawling From Grace, Driven To Madness on the day it released to the public. I watched. It's good. Plenty of James Howard Kunstler. A little bit of Jan Gehl. Oh,

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...when young men, seemingly happy that the snow is gone, ride around in cars with the windows down, proudly calling out to random road users that the melted snow has revealed the sidewalk!---Honey? Can you go pick up a few groceries for us?You mean you're sending me out to ride my bike? Ok!We also need gas for the mower. Ok!There I was pulling in to the gas station loaded with groceries, smiling

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Today is the only day in my lifetime that Easter and my birthday are on the same day. Happy Easter.

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First:FAST's: The Second Annual Earth Day Leaders Park Garbage PickupSaturday, April 23, 1pmDetails.--Second: After a post like yesterday's and a weekend like last weekend I like to take a breath and remember that mostly it's all futile. Read all about it in Ecclesiastes, or at The Little Blog in the Big Woods: Pushing On Icebergs:My metaphor here is that huge societal problems are very much like

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This weekend I took my Traffic Skills 101 teaching skills west to Rapid City. South Dakota Bicycle Coalition member Mike Bender hosted. Jim Books and I did a few very interesting and fun things.Friday noon we furnished lunch for some VIP's. While we had them with their mouths full of food we entreated them to core vehicular cycling principles. We began with South Dakota law, moved to Rapid City

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What is the purpose of the study? - "The I-29 Exit 77 Crossroad Corridor Study will be a guidebook for roadway and access improvements over the next 5 to 20 years for 41st Street, Louise Avenue, and the I-29/41st Street interchange.""The primary transportation related considerations will be roadway capacity safety, and access. Other considerations include pedestrians, transit, and aesthetics." (I

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First and importantly: tomorrow at 5pm at JFK Elementary there is an open house to gather input on re-creating 41st Street from Valley View Road to Kiwanis Ave. Decisions made in these planning stages will be with us for 40 years.Anybody who's ever said or thought that there ought to be bike lanes on 41st Street must go to this open house. I'm looking at you former Senator Jerstad.Perhaps someone

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Not much biking going on here today. It was a ret and wainy Saturday.The graph shows a bunch of time spent in a car with other people. I think we did pretty good though. We got haircuts and breakfast and bread and groceries and bike tubes and groceries and gas and retrieved something from The MinusCar II at the service garage and groceries and SDBC mail and FAST mail. All in one trip.I did manage

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I met a guy for lunch downtown today. Good times. Once I found this bike parked I knew I was in the right place. Isn't it purty?I utilized the bus for the round trip to downtown. Good passenger counts! I waited with about 10 other riders to board. Somewhere along the route we got in trouble from the driver. He thought the guy next to me was playing some awful loud music.The ol' ears are what they

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One way to not drive so much is to have a car that's in the shop a lot. It especially helps if parts are unavailable (or very far away) for said car.Stupid car.I almost needed a car today because it's my turn to fill the water jugs at work. Instead I took a vote and we decided to discontinue buying water at work. Lucky for me none of them read this.Hey, LAB Traffic Skills 101 is going down in

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I drove some again today. Oh yes, this is indeed my new non-permanent reality. Since the weekend The MinusCar II computer has been spitting out messages: service ABS, service Steering, service Traction Control, service Stability Control.Methinks the computer doth protest too much. Perhaps the computer in the mirror could help it identify the problem. Or maybe my mechanic will service all those

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Made ya look.I'm entering a bike in an April 16 triathlon. So I drove today with two bikes on the back of the car with the intent of one begin picked up by the triathlete and riding the other one home at the end of the day.As I left work I found the Pugsley - not the one participating on the triathlon - had fallen over. Why? Because sometime during the day the tube had burst. Boom! I feel sorry

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It's clear that winter is in the rear view mirror.It's important to keep reminding myself there are two months of cold and rain ahead.I rode my bike a little bit today. Drove some and walked some too.A few weeks ago I spent 2 hours sitting at a table in the bowels of City Hall with a police attorney, a police officer, a traffic engineer and a planner. Good times. I only disappointed myself once -

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For many months it's been known that this summer will be a bad one for bike trail closures. 9 of the 20 miles of trail will have planned closures.* Yay! - downtown's shiny new Riverwalk which will open up lots of new public space.* Yay! - the replacement of the Central Main Sewer line, originally a 3 year project, has been condensed to one season. After this is complete we should be able to

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Things got a little messy on the way home today. Let me suggest a Pugsley downside: the 4" tires can hold 2x mud. Sure is fun playing in the mud after two weeks of very intense work. Tomorrow's high 46. Masybe I'll pack some shorts for the trip home.

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--Ash Wednesday. It was today. I saw one. As I'm wont to do during this season my mind wanders to days long passed. And today - because I'm thinking about Lent lots - I remembered this article. Biking as a Lenten practice - By Melissa Bixler--Terribly sad news out of Champaign/Urbana, IL.Meet: David and Cindy "have been married for 20+ years. Neither of them drive; she is blind. They live in

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David: Michael wants to know what's going on. Marko, what's going on? Marko: I don't know. What's going on, Paul? Paul: Wait a minute. Who wants to know? Dwayne: Michael wants to know. --So much going on I'm having a tough time keeping track.1. We put the key in and turned it. The 2011 Sioux Falls Bike to Work Day event started up. It's always the 3rd Friday of May. Come on out. Grab some

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It's happening again...

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There's a spot on 41st St, right there by the busiest intersection in the state, where the sidewalk/pedestrian traffic merges with the right turn only lane on a 40,000 vehicle per day road.Oh sure there's a myth worth of protection in that spot - a nice 5 inch wide white line painted from one sidewalk edge across to where the sidewalk continues after crossing a right turn only entrance and a

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You get these youngsters on bikes and you never know what sort of danger they'll put themselves in.I guess The Dad was pretty happy to be leaving work last Friday.No, it isn't photoshopped.--Looking for Valentine's Day content? Please check out Monday's Yehuda Moon.

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I took advantage of the beautific temperature today and headed out for a small adventure. I let the Pugsley decided where to take me and it soon became clear we'd be visiting Leaders Park.By way of the I29 Pedestrian Bridge, Falls Park, DTSF, Caribou Coffee, and finally The Broken Chain - which isn't so much a venue but a state of drivetrain.Leaders Park is the site of the singletrack build.

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January's South Dakota Bike Summit was remarkable for many reasons - but for me, one reason needs a little more mention - and today's just the right day.Women. On bikes. Well, it was January so the few bikes that were there were very Pierre based. Follow me anyway...First there's coalition VP Jessica - without whom there would have been no summit.Friday night's social-ness was hosted by Amy, the

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The Boys found their way outside today.The Boy 8 built a snowman.Then sent him for a ride.

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Two of my favorite people ended up on the news last night. One for riding his bike in the cold. One for being an enabler.Snakebite and The Owner keeping local cycling visible in early February.Then there's the guy at the end. Please, just because he rides super-super-non-standard doesn't mean he deserves to be run over. At least he has a helmet on......his handlebars.

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Tuesday February 8 there are two open houses related to the multi-use path corridors that endeavour to connect Sioux Falls to Brandon, Harrisburg and Tea.Harrisburg 4:30 to 6:00pm @ Harrisburg Community Library - presentation at 5:30pmBrandon 7:00 to 8:00pm @ Brandon City Council Chambers - presentation at 7:15pmThe hard work of considering routing options and receiving community input has mostly

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Sometimes the blog posts write themselves. Other times the blog posts appear in my inbox already written.I received the following reports today from The Out There:Part IGot up this morning...started my eggs and coffee...checked my digital thermometer...-12deg, wind unknown...I continued the consumption of my eggs and coffee...got dressed...and departed approximately 6:50am... I made it to roughly

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Facing a third lifetime trip to the heart of the core of The MinusCar engine to see perhaps, if indeed the block is not cracked, I spent the holiday weekends working out some new wheels of the automotive variety.Merry Christmas & Happy New YearImagine the misunderstandings of the sales people in dealing with a customer who is more interested in how the car will look parked in the garage or on

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...into the ring.(even if I can't spell Almanzo 100.)

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Today's high: 24. Today's bike miles: 24. Today's night riding, plenty. It's a good day. Rode east to the bike trail open house. Good turnout. Solid public meeting. It's nice to be able to ask questions.--I'm not saying that it's because of all the mornings I trample through their snow, bike in tow, while they look at the crazy biker dude through their windows.I'm not saying that it's because

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Almost half of the bike trail will be closed this summer. Some parts for very long periods of time. There's going to be an open house Wednesday to discuss it.January 26 from 5:00 to 6:30 at Morningside Community Center. There will be a presentation at 5:30pm.Closures: The downtown greenway project is very exciting to me. Making the riverfront accessible on the east side. In a world that lacks

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After I dropped the rental car off this morning I was without a car for awhile. Facing an unproductive day without a car I decided I'd just do the best I could.I worked a full day. I could go into details but I'd rather just suggest I'm working on the death panels and leave it at that.I managed lunch with The Owner. I made him pay for my free burrito. Ancho Chile w/ chicken. Black beans. Cheese

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