This week has flown by. I can’t even believe that tomorrow I will already be headed to Charleston for the weekend. But, I am pretty happy about it. On my way to work today, I bent the rear rim of my bike (for the 4th time). So, I have decided to get some high profile double walled rims. Possibly I will just replace the whole wheel set. I’ll put up photos as soon as it happens.
I have never really been much of a cyclist until recently, even though I have always had bikes. I’m really starting to appreciate the whole culture of it (albeit, I think that I’m kinda relegated to the hipsterish subdivision of it, since I will never wear spandex and I only have one gear). Anyway, with the weather the way it is this time of year (example photo above taken this afternoon on my way back from a lunch mtg. in midtown), it is absolutely delicious to be out riding. My friend Mike put it best recently when he said: “things go by at just the right speed on a bike. Not too fast, like in a car. But not too slow, like walking.” Also, riding on the West Side path at night might possibly be my new obsession.
Woot! Woot! We’re all going to have a blast this weekend!
“I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles per hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@Kat: It is going to be good times fo sho!
@Dan: Ha! Thanks, Dan. I love it.
i’m a single speeder as well. here is a link of the bike i built back in college – i love this bike more than anything. still riding daily four years later! 🙂 i love the way your friend put it, just right.
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2008/sept/3/PaigeJackson.htm
@paige: Beautiful bike, Paige! I’m not hardcore enough to ride mine as a fixie. But the new wheel set I’m getting has the dual hubs. I may try it out eventually.