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Aug 20, 2007 SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH! A born screecher I may be, but that's a sound no cyclist wants to hear in their two wheeled career. And avoiding the temptation to mix rubber and alcohol can sure help! The famous cycling writer Maynard Hershon sent us this little yarn from Denver - he assures us he was as dry as his best three-cyclists-walk-into-a-bar joke, but others around him weren't so .. This shot was taken in mid-August as we waited for the start of the giant Moonlight Classic in Denver. It's about midnight and we're across the street from the state capitol building. The sticker that you can't read on my buddy Nick Nunns' helmet says You'd Look Hotter in a Helmet. The half-hour we waited for the start was the highlight of the ride. After the start, we pedaled in fear as people crashed inexplicably into one another and into the SIDES of parked cars. I don't know what I'd expected, but what I learned was that casual cyclists drink just as much and control their bikes just as inexpertly as they do their cars. Many of our friends say that the Moonlight Classic is their favorite ride of the year. Maybe it's not too scary. Maybe we're too old... Nope, it's too scary. ... in other news of the New York minute, the new Bike Friday Jersey is hot off the surger/serger/overlocker/whateveryoucallit and gracefully modeled by a Bike Friday Club of New Yorker. Take a peek (scroll down). We're gearing up for 10 Friday folk to land on the homestate of Bike Friday for the 2007 Cycle Oregon Homecoming. It's hilly and challenging, and you've worked all your life to get to ride a folding bike and sleep in your very own ripstop nylon villa ... there's no accounting for funsterism, is there? Some folks even scored a free trip by penning a ode to the road on a Friday - bedtime reading! And in case you missed Mike McGettigan/Trophy Bikes' annual Philly phunstering, Round*Up 2007 was a blast with the Bike Friday tikit winning the fast fold showdown. Enjoy the full monty media here. In the spirit of 'When Over the Hill Means Nice Passing You Young Man', we've just gotten word of a fabulous piece of inspiration on a Friday published in the Sacramento Bee, about Dr Harvey Dunning Cain, his Bike Friday, and one less kidney. Read all about it. The 77-year-old former chief of Industrial Medicine at Kaiser Permanente has done some serious miles with his 'two psychiatrists - his left foot and his right foot'. He was part of a sponsored expedition following Adventure Cycling Association's newest route - the major Underground Railroad Route - to promote physical fitness and to make history of sorts - the trip was 'the first partnership the ACA has made with an ethnic minority organization. Harvey, the Bike Friday Club of Sacramento are ready to welcome you with open arms if you haven't already joined - but they might have a hard time keeping up with you! Thanks to Ramon Coronado and the Sacramanto Bee for publishing a story that counters mainstream media's tendency to champion a youth we all lose ... |