Bike to Work Week Diary (collected)
Day 1
The current state of the River Trail
Admission: I almost always ride my bike to work, but rarely do I ride my bicycle.
In other words, I take my motorcycle to work as often as possible, so I do better than the average car with my 55 to 60 mpg, my small parking footprint and relatively few raw resources required in the manufacture and upkeep of my transportation. If anyone is wondering, Ride to Work Day for motorcycles, is July 15.
Today, May 11, of course is the first day of Bike to Work Week (I guess they need a week, ’cause they move so slow compared to motorcycles), and I still did not ride my bicycle to work. Like everyone else who failed, I have an excuse: 2.3 million errands and meetings to fit into a very small time span and a very large space span.
Internal combustion aided and abetted me and I feel OK about it.
But I do plan to honor Bike to Work Week for the remaining four days. 4.7 miles each way is not a big deal in a normal city, but in Santa Fe, it can feel like a death wish. Still, ever since being an avid rider and amateur racer in the 1980s, I have remained a big bicycle dork, so I’m looking foward to it.
In fact, my big dilemma is wheter to take the fixie–fast and light–the single speed coaster brake with the big farmers market basket–utilitarian with a touch of hooligan–or the 29er–able to roll over cars at will.
All are single speeds, naturally: it’s pretty flat around here and I lost my taste for riding up steep mountain roads a long time ago. Continue reading »
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