Sile Kiernan, a member of the Starbucks Women’s Racing Team, is helping to welcome Sean Kelly and the McQuaid brothers to town for the Bike Expo this Saturday. Pre-expo festivities will ensue on Thursday at 8:00 PM at the Irish Emigrant.
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There was an interesting discussion on the Cascade Bulletin Board speculating whether a ticket received for a bicycling infraction would cause your auto insurance rates go up? Short answer… no.
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Webelos Scott suggested we set up a friendly ‘competition’ to egg each other on to continue commuting through the winter. As someone who’s always been fond of collecting irredeemable points or medals of valor, this is swell. Below is the preliminary system.
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Partly Sunny: 29° F, wind 0°@ 0 mph, visibility 9 mi, 74% humidity This morning’s weather My virtual odometer rolled past 3,500 this morning on what was a post card view of Seattle: clear as a bell, Olympic mountains dusted with snow, pink sunrise reflecting off their peaks. So cold, but oh so pretty! Too
Biking home through the snow yesterday afternoon was interesting. The only truly miserable part was when snowflakes flew into my eyes: at first it stings, then the snow melts and I can’t see out of that eye for a few blinks. Fortunately it wasn’t coming down hard until the last hill.
Cascade Bicycle Club has a new High Performance Cycling “program” for cyclists who like to ride fast, hard, far, and climb hills. Claire Petersky beat me to the obvious counter-suggestion: Is there also going to be a Low Performance Cycling Open House, for cyclists who want to lollygag and dawdle? This would teach skills in
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(Doesn’t have the same ring as Freakonomics.) In a previous entry, I tried to quantify the economies of bicycle commuting. There were several interesting comments that I wanted to call out.
Since gas appears “stuck” near $3.00/gallon, the psychological price that encourages me to bike commute when the weather is cruddy, I was kind of curious how much, if anything, I was saving.
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