This One makes you Fat

This landed in my inbox today, courtesy of Dana B. in Minneapolis.

Here's a video of a really good "save" on a fast downhill, as well.

Don't Hate me because I'm a Bicyclist

Check out this anti-cyclist podcast about "The Bicycle Trail of Death" on the March 25 post. This was originally broadcast on a radio station. Scary. Thanks to Tim S. for pointing this one out.

On a happier note, I made it out for the first two segments of Half Acre's Kevin's crits. Monday was chilly and gray. Tuesday's races had a little rain, but not too bad. I had thought about racing, although I haven't done a crit in a long time and feel out of shape and out of practice. For various reasons, I ended up going to help out instead. On Monday I helped at registration. It was obvious how much it helps to have almost everyone preregistered! On Tuesday Erica and Mike had it down to an art and didn't need help. It seems to me that our first time crit promoter friends at Half Acre Cycling have done a really nice job of pulling off five races in a week! Think about it, who else but stage races and Super Week attempts to do that?





Thanks to Half Acre Cycling for being such good citizens of racing and creating an opportunity for the less experienced categories to get some race experience compressed into a short time.





If you started out by racing at Kenosha last Sunday, you could do eight (!) races in a row from last Sunday to next Sunday! And then you'd need to sleep for a week...

Mash-Up Video

Amazing that someone had the patience to do this. Kinda interesting mash-up video!

Victory Salute Like a Pro

It's getting to be the time of year where some of the tips in this article about how to Victory Salute like a Pro might come in handy. Theoretically.

If nothing else you'll get a kick out of the pics of all the various victory salutes.

Upside Down Car

As I was driving home from the gym, there were all these police cars with flashing lights passing me. And a fire truck went roaring by as well. When I got home there were flashing lights everywhere about a half block away. I went to check it out. This is the second time in the last couple of months that I have come home minutes after a serious accident almost, but not quite, in front of my house.

I don't quite understand how it got upside down. It obviously got hit on the side you can see. The car was pointed in the wrong direction, but otherwise was not at an angle. It was lined up with traffic, just pointed the wrong way. The cops asked me if a Jeep that was parked on the side was mine, so they must have thought that car was somehow involved. It looked just like another parked car to me. The ambulance was just sitting there, so the driver must not have been hurt, or else another ambulance must have already left. (Update: A neighbor said she heard a terrible sound, and it took a while before any emergency vehicles showed up. Then she saw them putting someone on a stretcher into an ambulance, which left. That had to be the red car's driver)

I didn't want to get any closer to get better pictures because I was afraid the cops would tell me I wasn't allowed to take pics, or try to take my camera. I turned off the flash for that reason. More pics on flickr.

NAHBS, yeah!

The trip to the North American Handmade Bicycle Show was super fun! I guess it's always better to leave wishing you could stay just a little longer, and feeling like you didn't get to see everything and talk to everyone. And to think I almost didn't go, since I was still feeling awful from being sick all week. I wanted to post pics here, but I don't have time for a long blog post now. I did spend some time uploading many of the photos to flickr. There should be a few more later in the week. My pics are only a sample of what was at the show - I spent more time talking to people than taking pics, so there are a lot of cool bikes I missed getting pics of.

Curious about who won the awards at the show? I was too. We left just as the awards were starting, so I didn't know who won until today.

If you'd like to see more alot more photos and in much greater detail from some people who were at the show longer, you can go to Olive Loves Cool Bicycles.