Warning - parts of this post are not true.
Apparently tomorrow is Earth Day. At least that's what the reporter said Thursday when he called for an interview. So...I'm gonna ride my bike to work tomorrow. I'm gonna ride to work on May 16th too, it's Bike To Work Day. I'll stop for free pancakes on my way - even though it's out of my way.
Then I'll have biked to work at least once a month so far this spring.
I think biking to work is a lot more interesting than driving. My supporting evidence includes the presence of a photographer on this morning's commute. We closed the intersection of 41st & Louise at 8:30am so my left turn on to 41st could be filmed. There was a malfunction with the bullet-time processor so the footage will be pretty standard. I'm surprised The City supported the closure on such short notice.
Hopefully the photog got the "driving billboard" in the shot. Nothing says waste like a truck driving around all day advertising itself. I suppose in some way it's essential to the economy.
Hey, Lunatic! I told them how much of an inspiration you are.
Finally, over the next couple days, if you happen to see my name in the local media, and they happen to catch me calling The Boy 6, The Boy 4, remember this. I might be able to get in the media, but I'm still an idiot.
"Silence is the only successful substitute for stupidity."
Monday, April 21, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Bike Thru Surgery
The Dad sent me this a few days ago...
...I got an appointment with the specialist three blocks from my work. He told me the tooth should come out and that Siouxland Oral Surgery should do it. I thought that was 2 blocks closer to work.
Turns out that Siouxland Oral Surgery is 3 miles away, way South on Minnesota Avenue. When you're on a bicycle, and your wife has the car, and the surgeon will see you "now", then you walk back to your work, get your bicycle and ride to your surgery as fast as you can.
The specialist gave me my x-Ray. When he learned that I was on a bicycle, he cut the x-Ray holder in half. (instead one film in a four slot holder, it became a one film in a two slot holder). But, since it was wet, he wouldn't let me put it in my pocket. He thought I could hook it over my handlebar. That didn't fit, so off to the surgeon I went, up and down the hills of 57th Street, with my x-Ray trailing from a carabineer hooked under my seat.
Of course, I left messages on the voice mail for my wife every time I passed a telephone. At 12:30, when surgery was done, I checked again. This time she was home. Talking through teeth clenching a wad of gauze I told her I was coming home. I was home by 1:00. Not bad: 3 hours after my first appointment, 8 miles on bicycle; 1/3 mile walking.
Hey The Dad, this one's for you:
"Eighteen minutes with an agile mind."
...I got an appointment with the specialist three blocks from my work. He told me the tooth should come out and that Siouxland Oral Surgery should do it. I thought that was 2 blocks closer to work.
Turns out that Siouxland Oral Surgery is 3 miles away, way South on Minnesota Avenue. When you're on a bicycle, and your wife has the car, and the surgeon will see you "now", then you walk back to your work, get your bicycle and ride to your surgery as fast as you can.
The specialist gave me my x-Ray. When he learned that I was on a bicycle, he cut the x-Ray holder in half. (instead one film in a four slot holder, it became a one film in a two slot holder). But, since it was wet, he wouldn't let me put it in my pocket. He thought I could hook it over my handlebar. That didn't fit, so off to the surgeon I went, up and down the hills of 57th Street, with my x-Ray trailing from a carabineer hooked under my seat.
Of course, I left messages on the voice mail for my wife every time I passed a telephone. At 12:30, when surgery was done, I checked again. This time she was home. Talking through teeth clenching a wad of gauze I told her I was coming home. I was home by 1:00. Not bad: 3 hours after my first appointment, 8 miles on bicycle; 1/3 mile walking.
Hey The Dad, this one's for you:
"Eighteen minutes with an agile mind."
Monday, April 14, 2008
FAB Spring Kickoff
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Coffee & Doughnut Abides
Snakebite and I kept the Coffee & Doughnut dream alive today.
Have I mentioned how much I like MapMyRideDotCom?
We met at O'Gorman High School at 8am sharpie and headed south on the bike path. We skirted the construction fence at 41st and noted the absence of trees near Olive Garden Restaurant. We wondered what the restaurant would look like with a raised dike out it's back door.
Over 49th to avoid fence #2, we enjoyed the crunch of last night's dusting of snow and ice. This was ride #2 on the 29 inch Ellsworth for him. We went around to Cherry Rock Park and took the greenway into downtown for stop #1 at Michelle's for biscuits and gravy. Is it too late to change the name of the ride?
I don't know how she keeps enough of them available. We visited with local songwriter and 2008 FABRAD (coming soon!) rocker Rich Show and at 9:35am, after Michelle's 9am help arrived to great fanfare (or was that dismay?), we departed for stop #2.
Mr. Bite had earlier noted MS Walk signs posted and after locating some of our favorite event coordinators by phone we arrived at the USF Stewart Center in time for pre-MS Walk festivities. We saw a few FAB members, we visited said favorite event coordinators, pretended we thought it was the MS 150 (that's Pedal the Plains to you buddy!), enjoyed a Su Fu Du performance and we were off. We didn't even steal any of their food.
Stop #3, Prairie Cycles to chat up it's owner and 2008 FABRAD (coming soon!) rocker Erik Nelson, about Bike to Work Day.
...and the ride disbanded.
Have I mentioned how much I like MapMyRideDotCom?
We met at O'Gorman High School at 8am sharpie and headed south on the bike path. We skirted the construction fence at 41st and noted the absence of trees near Olive Garden Restaurant. We wondered what the restaurant would look like with a raised dike out it's back door.
Over 49th to avoid fence #2, we enjoyed the crunch of last night's dusting of snow and ice. This was ride #2 on the 29 inch Ellsworth for him. We went around to Cherry Rock Park and took the greenway into downtown for stop #1 at Michelle's for biscuits and gravy. Is it too late to change the name of the ride?
I don't know how she keeps enough of them available. We visited with local songwriter and 2008 FABRAD (coming soon!) rocker Rich Show and at 9:35am, after Michelle's 9am help arrived to great fanfare (or was that dismay?), we departed for stop #2.
Mr. Bite had earlier noted MS Walk signs posted and after locating some of our favorite event coordinators by phone we arrived at the USF Stewart Center in time for pre-MS Walk festivities. We saw a few FAB members, we visited said favorite event coordinators, pretended we thought it was the MS 150 (that's Pedal the Plains to you buddy!), enjoyed a Su Fu Du performance and we were off. We didn't even steal any of their food.
Stop #3, Prairie Cycles to chat up it's owner and 2008 FABRAD (coming soon!) rocker Erik Nelson, about Bike to Work Day.
...and the ride disbanded.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Place At The Table
Remember when I and two other rollers participated in the Shape Sioux Falls Visual Survey? You don't because I didn't write about it. The Hooterville Mayor did.
Shape Sioux Falls visual survey was 200-ish pictures of cityscapes, flashed on a screen for 7 seconds each, so that the participant can rate the picture on a 10 point scale as visually pleasing.
As one MinusCar friendly person wrote to me, “I voted against any picture of a huge cement playground and voted for everything with bikes.”
1,500 people participated in the survey. A smashing success! Did more than 1,500 people vote last Tuesday in the city elections?
Now, the results are in.
Today The MinusCar Project advanced a baby step. I attended a Shape Sioux Falls Focus Group. I sat in a room of 10-ish people, council members, planners, developers, engineers, and me. We reviewed transportation and open space development related findings from the survey.
To say I eloquently argued my thoughts on sustainable development and the bicycle as a viable and necessary form of transportation would be an overstatement.
To say I said anything at all would be somewhat of an overstatement, I may have mumbled something once. I followed a piece of pithy plastic desktop wisdom my parents gave me a million years ago – “silence is the only successful substitute for stupidity.” Oops, my secret’s out.
The meeting was chock full of insights and interesting tidbits.
1. The single most favorite photo was a very nice picture of Falls Park. Rightly so!
2. 24 of the top 25 photos, to quote the consultant (after we viewed them), “no cars in sight.” Or this, from a slide, “[The] Most low-rated [photos]: exclusively auto-oriented.”
3. Interestingly, after all those no car photos, selected by all those 1,500 people, the meeting did manage to briefly degrade into how hard it is to drive through design like that.
4. I'm in a room and I hear someone refer to a section of street I wish was easier to cycle on as “my project” or “I designed that.” This is a good place to be.
5. The theoretical idea of a multi-building commercial development that a pedestrian could walk from building to building. REMARKABLE! Last week I watched 5, 14 year-old girls trying to get from the Empire Mall to the Empire East Mall. They had successfully crossed 100 yards or more of parking lot. I observed two of them run halfway across Louise before turning back to the curb and their 3 companions. They still had 100 more yards of parking lot if they ever got across. No wonder teenagers think they need cages.
6. The purpose of Shape Sioux Falls is to provide guidance as the city attempts to improve zoning ordinances. The dots were connected between this and the ability for developers to try new things. In some cases, more sustainable things. The evidence that developers should try new things is the visual survey. The actuality of developers trying new things after the zoning laws allow it is a whole ‘nother matter.
Yes, there was more, but we’re out of time. Good night everybody.
4/11 8:50am - I feel compelled to add that any sense conveyed through reading this that sustainability was at all a theme in this meeting would be an inaccurate. The sustainability theme was the template through which I viewed my presence at the meeting.
Shape Sioux Falls visual survey was 200-ish pictures of cityscapes, flashed on a screen for 7 seconds each, so that the participant can rate the picture on a 10 point scale as visually pleasing.
As one MinusCar friendly person wrote to me, “I voted against any picture of a huge cement playground and voted for everything with bikes.”
1,500 people participated in the survey. A smashing success! Did more than 1,500 people vote last Tuesday in the city elections?
Now, the results are in.
Today The MinusCar Project advanced a baby step. I attended a Shape Sioux Falls Focus Group. I sat in a room of 10-ish people, council members, planners, developers, engineers, and me. We reviewed transportation and open space development related findings from the survey.
To say I eloquently argued my thoughts on sustainable development and the bicycle as a viable and necessary form of transportation would be an overstatement.
To say I said anything at all would be somewhat of an overstatement, I may have mumbled something once. I followed a piece of pithy plastic desktop wisdom my parents gave me a million years ago – “silence is the only successful substitute for stupidity.” Oops, my secret’s out.
The meeting was chock full of insights and interesting tidbits.
1. The single most favorite photo was a very nice picture of Falls Park. Rightly so!
2. 24 of the top 25 photos, to quote the consultant (after we viewed them), “no cars in sight.” Or this, from a slide, “[The] Most low-rated [photos]: exclusively auto-oriented.”
3. Interestingly, after all those no car photos, selected by all those 1,500 people, the meeting did manage to briefly degrade into how hard it is to drive through design like that.
4. I'm in a room and I hear someone refer to a section of street I wish was easier to cycle on as “my project” or “I designed that.” This is a good place to be.
5. The theoretical idea of a multi-building commercial development that a pedestrian could walk from building to building. REMARKABLE! Last week I watched 5, 14 year-old girls trying to get from the Empire Mall to the Empire East Mall. They had successfully crossed 100 yards or more of parking lot. I observed two of them run halfway across Louise before turning back to the curb and their 3 companions. They still had 100 more yards of parking lot if they ever got across. No wonder teenagers think they need cages.
6. The purpose of Shape Sioux Falls is to provide guidance as the city attempts to improve zoning ordinances. The dots were connected between this and the ability for developers to try new things. In some cases, more sustainable things. The evidence that developers should try new things is the visual survey. The actuality of developers trying new things after the zoning laws allow it is a whole ‘nother matter.
Yes, there was more, but we’re out of time. Good night everybody.
4/11 8:50am - I feel compelled to add that any sense conveyed through reading this that sustainability was at all a theme in this meeting would be an inaccurate. The sustainability theme was the template through which I viewed my presence at the meeting.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
"Bikers Suck"
Today's line from The Barista - "you won't be riding that bike tomorrow or Friday mister."
The operator of the black Jeep Cherokee at 49th & Kiwanis would like you to know that "bikers suck." What I wish he would have told me, "don't be distracted by drivers feeding you information through the hole in their steel and glass cages."
I turned to raise my grande non-fat chai to him and promptly fell off. Thereby confirming for him everything he already believes. Don't worry mom, there were no injuries. That I'll admit to.
I never got the chance to confirm with him that it is, in fact, I who suck, not all you folks who can raise a (sometimes even alcoholic) toast without falling off.
Take note - apparently when 81% of the country thinks it's headed on the wrong track people get grumpy. I've heard more from cage holes in this short year than all of last year combined.
Have a beautiful day. I hope you rode to work and you have time to take the long way home.
The operator of the black Jeep Cherokee at 49th & Kiwanis would like you to know that "bikers suck." What I wish he would have told me, "don't be distracted by drivers feeding you information through the hole in their steel and glass cages."
I turned to raise my grande non-fat chai to him and promptly fell off. Thereby confirming for him everything he already believes. Don't worry mom, there were no injuries. That I'll admit to.
I never got the chance to confirm with him that it is, in fact, I who suck, not all you folks who can raise a (sometimes even alcoholic) toast without falling off.
Take note - apparently when 81% of the country thinks it's headed on the wrong track people get grumpy. I've heard more from cage holes in this short year than all of last year combined.
Have a beautiful day. I hope you rode to work and you have time to take the long way home.
Monday, April 07, 2008
SDBC Score #2
Recently I wondered aloud why The Local Daily hadn't covered the genesis of the South Dakota Bicycle Coalition.
Today they did.
Thanks to those who made that happen - and nice twist turning into a FAB article too!
Today they did.
Thanks to those who made that happen - and nice twist turning into a FAB article too!
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Coffee Run
I stepped out for coffee this morning. I'm like those Family Circus strips where Billy wanders all over the place on his way to some mother assigned task. Ultimately I bailed on Dunn Brothers and selected Caribou. Mocha and lemon poppyseed. 15 minutes. There was one other customer in the store - he had arrived in a bicycle too. I didn't know him. It took me 30 miles to find my way back home.
It's nice getting out early for an urban ride on Saturday or Sunday mornings. That first hand view of all the carnage (that's punny) caused by drivers that couldn't/wouldn't stay on the road during the night is especially enlightening.
What do you think about when you ride?
Monday, March 31, 2008
Weekend in Reverse
Mt Dew & Peachie O's on the way home.
NBA Wufs v Jazz - NBA game #1 for The Boys - the Boy 6 likes the Howl-o-meter. I'm skeptical. Wufs win. That wasn't the point.
Woodland Hills Church - listened to a sermon that may preclude me from being President later.
Wake/check out.
Sleep.
Dinner @ Town Talk Diner w/ Transit Librarian and his lovely wife. I had the brat burger. The Boy 6 had tapioca loaf.
The Wedge - food co-op. Either because we love visiting food co-ops, or because The Boy 6's tapioca loaf got soaked in the ice cooler. Or both.
You take the skyway, high above the busy little one-way.
Hard Rock Cafe
LegoLand purchase. Apple store walk through. See 15 minutes at MOA, How to...that MacBookAir is THIN!
Green Day: American Idiot for possibly the 20th time.
REI - because The Boy 10 might try climbing...but a Friday playground injury precluded him from trying the monolith. Darn. Then got kicked out because we didn't meet minimum requirements. 1 (one) North Face logo per group.
Hiawatha Cyclery - for reelights. Opens in 30 minutes. Bummer.
Wake up in Cycle City. Where'd all these bikes come from?
Sleep. Midtown Sheraton.
Drive. Audiobook - "Into the Wild" by either Jack Krakauer or Jon Kerouac
NBA Wufs v Jazz - NBA game #1 for The Boys - the Boy 6 likes the Howl-o-meter. I'm skeptical. Wufs win. That wasn't the point.
Woodland Hills Church - listened to a sermon that may preclude me from being President later.
Wake/check out.
Sleep.
Dinner @ Town Talk Diner w/ Transit Librarian and his lovely wife. I had the brat burger. The Boy 6 had tapioca loaf.
The Wedge - food co-op. Either because we love visiting food co-ops, or because The Boy 6's tapioca loaf got soaked in the ice cooler. Or both.
You take the skyway, high above the busy little one-way.
Hard Rock Cafe
LegoLand purchase. Apple store walk through. See 15 minutes at MOA, How to...that MacBookAir is THIN!
Green Day: American Idiot for possibly the 20th time.
REI - because The Boy 10 might try climbing...but a Friday playground injury precluded him from trying the monolith. Darn. Then got kicked out because we didn't meet minimum requirements. 1 (one) North Face logo per group.
Hiawatha Cyclery - for reelights. Opens in 30 minutes. Bummer.
Wake up in Cycle City. Where'd all these bikes come from?
Sleep. Midtown Sheraton.
Drive. Audiobook - "Into the Wild" by either Jack Krakauer or Jon Kerouac
Thursday, March 27, 2008
SDBC Score #1
This from the Rapid City Journal:
"In fact, the South Dakota Bicycle Coalition helped persuade the state Rail Board to seek bids to make minimal repairs to the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge over the Cheyenne River. The state had intended to tear it down, Cole said. 'If you lose that bridge, its value as a trail would be gone,' he said."
Congratulations South Dakota Bicycle Coalition!
Now, somebody please tell me I'm wrong here. The South Dakota Bicycle Coalition appers in the Rapid City Journal, KX TV in Minot, Black Hills Pioneer, the nationally known BikingBis website, KMEG in Sioux City, and The Daily Republic in Mitchell.
The South Dakota Bicycle Coalition doesn't appear in the Argus Leader.
"In fact, the South Dakota Bicycle Coalition helped persuade the state Rail Board to seek bids to make minimal repairs to the Milwaukee Road railroad bridge over the Cheyenne River. The state had intended to tear it down, Cole said. 'If you lose that bridge, its value as a trail would be gone,' he said."
Congratulations South Dakota Bicycle Coalition!
Now, somebody please tell me I'm wrong here. The South Dakota Bicycle Coalition appers in the Rapid City Journal, KX TV in Minot, Black Hills Pioneer, the nationally known BikingBis website, KMEG in Sioux City, and The Daily Republic in Mitchell.
The South Dakota Bicycle Coalition doesn't appear in the Argus Leader.
Monday, March 24, 2008
UNL Lectures
"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.” - Marshall Mcluhan
The quote was dropped by Amory Lovins at the end of his presentation last month at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He participated in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. He's been travelling with his "Winning the Oil Endgame" presentation for a few years now. This is actually the third time I've heard it (updated of course), and I never get tired of it. This guy is VISIONARY!
If you haven't heard it - come on! Hear it. Get the current iteration through iTunes U or download the (I guess) 2007 version from last year's archives.
Or catch another version from the TED Conference (with video!):
I also listend to National Evangelical Association VP Richard Cizik at the same forum and the same month. I've written about him plenty but I haven't heard him speak at length. He's not nearly as polished as Lovins, I like my religion/climate change argument better but nonetheless I got 90 minutes uninterrupted from him today too. Again, available from iTunes U.
I almost forgot - my college classmate the Infidel Cowboy (I like to think of him as Fidel) would like you to know that "Global Warming is Bullshit." As I read back through his blog though it didn't take long (no time at all actually) to restore my hope in his humanity.
The quote was dropped by Amory Lovins at the end of his presentation last month at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He participated in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. He's been travelling with his "Winning the Oil Endgame" presentation for a few years now. This is actually the third time I've heard it (updated of course), and I never get tired of it. This guy is VISIONARY!
If you haven't heard it - come on! Hear it. Get the current iteration through iTunes U or download the (I guess) 2007 version from last year's archives.
Or catch another version from the TED Conference (with video!):
I also listend to National Evangelical Association VP Richard Cizik at the same forum and the same month. I've written about him plenty but I haven't heard him speak at length. He's not nearly as polished as Lovins, I like my religion/climate change argument better but nonetheless I got 90 minutes uninterrupted from him today too. Again, available from iTunes U.
I almost forgot - my college classmate the Infidel Cowboy (I like to think of him as Fidel) would like you to know that "Global Warming is Bullshit." As I read back through his blog though it didn't take long (no time at all actually) to restore my hope in his humanity.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Coffee And (not a very good) Microwaved Burrito
I know I'm late to this party but, this week I discovered MapMyRide.com. Love it!
This morning I woke the the promise of tasty coffee and a bike ride. I met Mr. Bite at the official starting point with two words - Dunn Brothers. Off we rode in some of the neatest weather conditions - little wind, 32 degrees, snowflakes big enough to knock you off your bike if they catch you wrong.
Hey CycleSD, the woman who made my coffee asked after you!
My therapist was enjoying coffee. I haven't seen him for a few years. He knows enough to say he'd parked his car and walked the rest of the way just because it was so beautiful out. He's down with The MCP.
We departed The DBC. Roads were a little more wet and for the first time ever water entered through the bottom of my Lake winter boots. Hmmm...
We stopped off at Leaders Park to catch a visual of what the place might look like with urban singletrack.
We stopped off at Falls Park to see water falling.
We stopped off at the Museum of Visual Materials to imagine what it would look like to have 150 bicyclists there on Bike to Work Day. That's May 16 by the way. This year the most important thing is to NOT RUN OUT OF FOOD. This might mean not running out of PANCAKES.
We stopped off at Thee Snakepit to fetch a rather large Ellsworth dual suspended 29er frame. He strapped it to his back and...
We stopped off at The LBS where I departed to home and he began to attach parts to said frame.
It was a 25 mile day. As the image barely shows I rode from the extreme west edge of The City to the extreme east edge. And back. I like that in a bike ride.
This morning I woke the the promise of tasty coffee and a bike ride. I met Mr. Bite at the official starting point with two words - Dunn Brothers. Off we rode in some of the neatest weather conditions - little wind, 32 degrees, snowflakes big enough to knock you off your bike if they catch you wrong.
Hey CycleSD, the woman who made my coffee asked after you!
My therapist was enjoying coffee. I haven't seen him for a few years. He knows enough to say he'd parked his car and walked the rest of the way just because it was so beautiful out. He's down with The MCP.
We departed The DBC. Roads were a little more wet and for the first time ever water entered through the bottom of my Lake winter boots. Hmmm...
We stopped off at Leaders Park to catch a visual of what the place might look like with urban singletrack.
We stopped off at Falls Park to see water falling.
We stopped off at the Museum of Visual Materials to imagine what it would look like to have 150 bicyclists there on Bike to Work Day. That's May 16 by the way. This year the most important thing is to NOT RUN OUT OF FOOD. This might mean not running out of PANCAKES.
We stopped off at Thee Snakepit to fetch a rather large Ellsworth dual suspended 29er frame. He strapped it to his back and...
We stopped off at The LBS where I departed to home and he began to attach parts to said frame.
It was a 25 mile day. As the image barely shows I rode from the extreme west edge of The City to the extreme east edge. And back. I like that in a bike ride.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Large Fella
In case you missed it when you read his blog...the Star Tribune has published a feature about the Large Fella on a Bike. Turns out he only used to be large.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Daylights
There was a murder in my happy little burg over the weekend. Apparently it went down in an apartment parking lot just before noon. By the mall. Yes the mall. That's sorta like killing someone just outside the temple!
One headline noted the hour as "broad daylight" which got me thinking...does anything good ever happen in broad daylight?
Does anybody every help and elderly woman cross a busy street in broad daylight?
Why is it that things that occur in broad daylight are almost always crimes?
One headline noted the hour as "broad daylight" which got me thinking...does anything good ever happen in broad daylight?
Does anybody every help and elderly woman cross a busy street in broad daylight?
Why is it that things that occur in broad daylight are almost always crimes?
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Tomato/Tomato
Some say this is a vehicle that accidentally crossed the center line...
I don't recall the last time I knowingly or unknowingly made a centerline angry but I do know this looks more like a vehicle that crossed the centerline, at least one lane of roadway, jumped a curb, went up an embankment, killed two, injured one...and then the driver may have woken up.
Let's call the whole thing off.
More bike lanes!
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Cars People People Cars
Another terrible cycling death (or two) another set of headlines to help determine whether people drive cars or cars drive people. In Cupertino two cyclists are killed by either a sheriff's vehicle or a sheriff's deputy.
1:15pm Monday.
Cars drive people:
1. Sheriff's patrol car hits bicyclists, kills 2
2. Two bicyclists killed, third injured in crash with patrol car
3. Sheriff's Vehicle Strikes, Kills Cyclists
4. Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured
5. UPDATE: Sheriff's deputy patrol car strikes three bicyclists
6. 2 Cyclists Killed In S.Bay Crash With Deputy's Car
7. Two bicyclists killed, third injured in crash with patrol car
8. Two bicyclists struck and killed by sheriff's vehicle in Cupertino
9. Santa Clara deputy sheriff's car hits and kills 2 bicyclists
10. Two bicyclists struck and killed by sheriff's car on Stevens ...
11. California Police Car Hits And Kills Two Cyclists In Cupertino
People drive cars:
1. NorCal Deputy Crashes Into Cyclists, Kills 2
2. Deputy Crashes Into Cyclists In South Bay, Kills 2
3. Police report an officer accidentally killed 2 cyclists. No ...
4. Cupertino officer plows cyclists, two dead
5. Deputy hits cyclists, at least 1 dead
6. Sheriff's deputy hits cyclists, killing 2
7. Two bicyclists killed in crash with sheriff's deputy
8. California Sheriff's Deputy Kills 2 Bicyclists during Patrol
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Thanks Google News.
1:15pm Monday.
Cars drive people:
1. Sheriff's patrol car hits bicyclists, kills 2
2. Two bicyclists killed, third injured in crash with patrol car
3. Sheriff's Vehicle Strikes, Kills Cyclists
4. Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured
5. UPDATE: Sheriff's deputy patrol car strikes three bicyclists
6. 2 Cyclists Killed In S.Bay Crash With Deputy's Car
7. Two bicyclists killed, third injured in crash with patrol car
8. Two bicyclists struck and killed by sheriff's vehicle in Cupertino
9. Santa Clara deputy sheriff's car hits and kills 2 bicyclists
10. Two bicyclists struck and killed by sheriff's car on Stevens ...
11. California Police Car Hits And Kills Two Cyclists In Cupertino
People drive cars:
1. NorCal Deputy Crashes Into Cyclists, Kills 2
2. Deputy Crashes Into Cyclists In South Bay, Kills 2
3. Police report an officer accidentally killed 2 cyclists. No ...
4. Cupertino officer plows cyclists, two dead
5. Deputy hits cyclists, at least 1 dead
6. Sheriff's deputy hits cyclists, killing 2
7. Two bicyclists killed in crash with sheriff's deputy
8. California Sheriff's Deputy Kills 2 Bicyclists during Patrol
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Thanks Google News.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Report: February 4 – March 2
A few nights ago I dreamed the roads were clear and I was riding my single speed road bike. I welcome March, but I’d rather say good riddance to winter. It’s snowing as I type.
For the sake of brevity I’m putting the whole month of February in one abbreviated report. I didn’t ride much. The cold. The snow. The city plowing budget seems to be used up. I'm a beaten man. Still, I was mostly conscious about my driving.
Thanks to a very good January I remain on my best car mileage pace yet.
January/February 2006 – 481
January/February 2007 – 407
January/February 2008 – 397
And I'm surprised to find I'm ahead of last year in bike miles.
January/February 2006 – 258
January/February 2007 – 72
January/February 2008 – 113
Two more months and winter will be over! Woo hoo!
PS. Don't forget to ask me how The MinusCar Project can promote and support a statewide organization that will give people yet another reason to travel across the state once or more a year.
For the sake of brevity I’m putting the whole month of February in one abbreviated report. I didn’t ride much. The cold. The snow. The city plowing budget seems to be used up. I'm a beaten man. Still, I was mostly conscious about my driving.
Thanks to a very good January I remain on my best car mileage pace yet.
January/February 2006 – 481
January/February 2007 – 407
January/February 2008 – 397
And I'm surprised to find I'm ahead of last year in bike miles.
January/February 2006 – 258
January/February 2007 – 72
January/February 2008 – 113
Two more months and winter will be over! Woo hoo!
PS. Don't forget to ask me how The MinusCar Project can promote and support a statewide organization that will give people yet another reason to travel across the state once or more a year.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
The Summit & The Coalition
The South Dakota Bicycle Summit was today. The South Dakota Bicycle Coalition is tomorrow. Here are the pictures that prove it.
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