black and white saturday

happy weekend, y'all

It's Friday

Time to grab some friends and ride off into the sunset!

Have Rack, Will Drink Coffee

Someone asked me once what the point of a rack was when you could just wear a backpack. I could have showed him this picture as my response. No rack would mean no portable coffee table to allow me to stand outside the café and take pictures.

Duh!

how to be nice to someone in two simple steps

one two...one two...

ONE:

and THEN........

TWO:

hopefully that made someone's day :)

Bum(er) Bike Day

Today was a challenging day on the bicycle. It was way warmer than I expected and thus, I was over dressed. I ended up riding in sweaty jeans, which many of you already know, is awful. There is a kind of baseline awful involved in damp, clingy denim but today, it was worse than usual.

Right above the spot where my posterior meets my leg I have developed two very uncomfortable ingrown hairs that have further developed, with the help of my saddle and today's sweaty jeans, in to two huge swollen lumps that hurt when anything, including the sheets on my bed, touch them.

Needless to say, I am unhappy with this situation. No more bicycle until they go away.

Spectrum start.

Have a colorful end of the month everybody! Bike lanes come in colors everywhere =)
This super cool capture is a submission from Greg in Portland, via our flickr pool.
It is a very fitting photo to mark the last day of August. Cheers!

Sharrow Chalk by gregraisman

Snapshots Of The Bicycle World

Bicycles should all come with cameras. The two go so well together that I am sometimes surprised when I see one without the other. Some, of course, take truly wonderful pictures of the world of bicycles and our Flickr group has some fantastic examples of those shots. Every now and then someone sends us some pictures that really stand out, and this week, that person goes by "macfred64".

I love how all of these pictures feel like a really nice dream. These all make me want to get out and ride my Batavus. They also make me wonder how so many of us fell for the "cars are better" farce we have been operating under for so long? How did we let anyone convince us that fresh air and independent power were undesirable?

Macfred, with his beautiful photograhpy, reminds us all that we haven't lost anything. All we have to do to get it back is get out and ride. And take our cameras along to help us remind others.