[acc]

Congratulations to your friend! What a very cool thing to do. I hope he has an excellent adventure. Please let us know how it goes.

[acc]

As a kid I saw “Breaking Away” then bugged my parents for a “good” bike. Back in the day, there were no helmets. I shudder to remember.

[acc]

I enjoyed Ride the Divide, the individual personalities are captured well and the participants are generally good natured and friendly. Love the scene of Matthew eating a cherry pie with dehydrated coffee sprinkled over the top. I was able to rent this film via I-Tunes.

[acc]

It only picked up this message as unread so I think it is ok. I could go over and see if the conflagration is still going on on another thread but I don’t wanna know….

[acc]

Yes, that seems to have worked. Thank you.

[acc]

It’s not just your Mac. Mine too.

[acc]

All true, I switch out a lot of my snowboarding clothing to ride in the winter. But in addition, as a small woman I can find children’s sizes of socks, gloves, etc that cost less and are just as effective. Kids are bigger than they used to be.

[acc]

I understand, would be glad to toss you the entire Celine Dion collection, you wouldn’t last long, truly a bunker buster.
Kudos to everyone who rode into work today, I felt nothing but admiration for you from inside my climate-controlled cockpit with the automatic seat warmers. Thumbs up.

[acc]

My entire knowledge of hippies comes from watching them on TV as a kid and a memorable walk through Venice Beach several years ago. It seems they have a small enclave there or it may be a sort of government run reservation.

Good luck with the Metro gig, I will miss the orange seating when it is all replaced. There was always a flavor of Running With the Bulls during rush hour…

Had an interesting spin class today, never would have picked Celine Dion for spin music. The weather better improve, I don’t need “I’m Alive” playing inside my head much longer.

Thanks Mykeru for emerging from your bunker, even if momentarily.

[acc]

No, I believe it was Mr. Blacknell who wanted to throw you into oncoming traffic. He probably knows you better.

I had my own near death experience not augmented by hallucinogenic pharmaceuticals but rather with a bike and car so I would not wish that on anyone except a particular cyclist who decided standing on his brakes was a good strategy when I was about three feet off his rear wheel two weeks ago. But I digress… When the POS car flattened me and I was looking up at its undercarriage I had the irrational thought, “Dear God, I’ve always owned lousy cars, driven lousy cars and ridden around in my friends’ lousy cars. Couldn’t I at least be hit by a Porsche?”

[acc]

Thank you for the suggestions, it will give me a nice break from “Land of the Lost,” my kid’s current favorite.

[acc]

Glad to see you made it home alive, thanks be to…. oh nevermind but I was rooting for the poo-flinging chimpanzee.

[acc]

Silly me, I thought it was their 501(c)(3) status that distinguished a cult from a religion. In my experience a cult will not open their financial books but the mainline religions are only to happy to show you where the money goes.

Have a safe ride.

[acc]

Before I bought my bike I admired the cyclists I saw, they moved with grace and fluidity. The only time I flinch when I am around a cyclist in traffic is during the height of rush hour and a cyclist is coming up on my right only to be passed when the cars start moving but I know he’s there and I am watching to see where he is going to reappear next. As long as a cyclist is predictable and uses hand signals I give them as much space as I can and they don’t bother me. When they cut across traffic without warning or weave back and forth I become nervous because I just don’t know what they are going to do next.

When I’m riding and a motorist stops for me to cross a street or is courteous to me I wave and smile and thank them. I try to focus on the gracious behavior out there all the while knowing darn well not to trust drivers.

And I agree, the more cyclists, the more noise we make, the more likely we will achieve respect and not just notoriety. Ride a bike, save a planet. Or whatever….

[acc]

Well, as a woman driver I consider it my civic duty to slow down and carefully observe the pistoning black Lycra from a respectful distance of at least 25 yards no matter how long it takes him to get up that hill. Safety first!

But as someone who was hit on my bike in a crosswalk and lived to tell the tale, I wrote a community impact statement on behalf of Stan Miller who was killed on his bike in Montgomery County.
The man who committed this crime will be sentenced Jan. 14th. The information about where to send a letter/email can be found at the Potomac Peddlers’ site. http://www.bikepptc.org/

[Author]

Posts