Safe Routes to School story on KELO

This is a good program to get kids to school. I remember growing up and walking 2 miles to get home. It was a choice of being one of the first people off the rural bus and walk 2 miles or be the last one off the bus 2 hours later. My brothers and sisters opted to walk.

I have Safe Routes to School training tonight and then next month I will go to Pierre to join a panel of people who are going to grade the applications so we can disperse the government money. South Dakota gives most of it's cycling related federal government money back to the feds because we do not find uses for the money. This is a program with a good cause.

Read the local story at KELO

Heavy load = trouble going uphills for cyclists and vehicles

South Dacola links me - I re-re-link so you can read the cool comments

South Dacola South Dakota's Snarkiest Political Blog

Don't let them shut down the bike trail until 2010 with no alternate routes

Sioux Falls is going to close down the bike trail at the 41st area to the Great Plains Zoo area until 2010 with no alternate routes. This is not acceptable. We still have to chance to voice our opinions and concerns. The Snakebite will be speaking. I hope you all can dress in cycling garb and attend the meeting.

Please attend the meeting this Wednesday, 5-6:30 at the Oyate Community Center, 2421 W. 15th Street - next to Garfield Elementary.

If you want a copy of the Press please give me your email and I will send it to.

Kids are a trip

Below are some recent things the Sudanese kids have told me as they swarm me and my bike.

Below each comment by the kids are my internal thought responses...not spoken out loud to the kids.

1. Make way for the magic man.
What the heck does this have to do with me and cycling? It sounds kind of creepy.

2. When are you going to ride next?
As if I need more guilt when not on my bicycle.

3. Why are you wearing those tight pants?
It's not because I look sexy in them.

4. Can I ride your bicycle?
No, No, No, No, No

A poem, "Therefore I must ride"

I eat, therefore I must ride.

I drink, therefore I must ride.

I smoke, therefore I must ride.

I stress, therefore I must ride.

I need escape, therefore I must ride.

I want more, therefore I must ride.

I ache when inactive, therefore I must ride.

I want to consume less, therefore I must ride.

I want to be alone, therefore I must ride.

I want to be with others, therefore I must ride.

I don't want to be angry, therefore I must ride.

I don't want to be morbidly obese, therefore I must ride.

I miss my passed-on relatives, therefore I must ride.

I adovcate, therefore I must ride.

I am nobody, somebody, anybody and therefore I must ride.


A person does not need a reason to ride but when you are on the bike for many hours I have to think about something. Get on a bike and think about something, anything or nothing. It's all good.

-Peace and Bike Love

What was I doing last Saturday?

Have you ever ridden one?
It does not look so easy getting on the bike
The crew waiting for the festivities. Is that Bald n Surly Twittering?
I think it is just water?
Briman and the Kernel
The most famous Hooterville Mayor
One Speed, myself and Pepper, the Italian Greyhound

Driving is just another recon report for street ride-ability conditions

Most of the snow has already melted but it sounds like there maybe heavy snow coming this weekend and next week.

As I drive to and from work I can not stop scanning left and right to see what kind of shape the streets are in. I check things like where the water is running. Where are the dry spots. How much loose dirt / gravel is on the shoulders.

Based on the conditions of the roads I think about which bike would work best.

I have big plans, or maybe I should say big dreams for my cycling 2009 season. They are my plans so I don't think I will share them here. Hey, create your own :)

-Peace and bike love.

Get paid to workout!

I think I commented about a year ago on a local blogger's site that we should hook up generators to all the gym treadmills and spinning machines. If only I would have patented it I would be rich.

See who is doing this at The Green Microgym

Epic cycling = Food memories for dudes

I think we all can listen to a song and it kicks in an old memory and we can picture ourselves in an exact place and time. The same holds true to cycling and food, for guys at least. A group of cyclists were discussing over pizza yesterday the different type of foods on past Tour de Kota's.

It seems, some of us dudes can remember exactly what we had to eat during the TDK, day by day, and stop by stop. The dudette, aka 1speed, could not engage the neurons in her brain to achieve "TOTAL RECALL" like us dudes. It got me thinking why is this the case?

Are all dudes just like our stereotypes? Fat, horny and stupid?

What I do find intriguing is how the recollection of a food item can take me back to that exact time and place in my mind.

A few examples dating back a couple of decades and not are cycling related are:

1. Korea - Operation Big Bear - spent 3 months - 10 miles from the DMZ. The first time I had eaten dog. After a few bites mama-son explained how the dog was fresh and that it just was ran over that morning.

2. Yuma, AZ - The first time I ate balute - and little baby chicken still inside the egg.

3. Pamana - Eating raw chicken at a gal's house who was just trying to make few bucks from the GI's. I refused to eat it and in return my buddies would not eat there meals because I had the iron gut and usually ate everything thrown at me.

4. Crappy beef sub last year at a Garriston gas station during our Palisades Park ride.

5. Blueberry pies at the Toure de Kota and a whole lot of other foods. I can picture myself how I was standing or sitting and where I was at when eating certain food items during the TDK.

6. Eating chicken at the Brandon Pizza ranch after the Brandon Lions ride and after riding with the Mayor on his 1st metric century ride.

7. The huge burger and fries at the Bunyon to Bob's ride last year.

So I ask the question. Is this just a guy thing?