Father and Daughter

A film about life with a bicycle theme.

If speeding cars are a problem in the neighborhood...

Springfield is considering lowering neighborhood speed limits to 25 mph. Contact City Council through the City Clerk's office if you want to support the measure. This guy found a great solution for those habitual speeders.

The Future of Transit in Springfield

While everyone would like to bring back street cars or build light rail, this film about Bogota, Colombia, is a more likely future. If the buses were electric, which is the way to go because of the flexibility of energy sources, they could be designed to look like street cars. Near the end of the film, they show a storage facility for 750 bikes at a bus station. It is cheaper to provide bike storage that encourages bike riding to the major bus stations than provide feeder bus lines.

Bucking the Wind to Ash Grove

The sun cooperated for yesterday's ride to Ash Grove, but not the wind. It was blowing out of the WSW at 20 mph with gusts to 25 mph. Tough on the outbound, but it made the pancakes at Willy B.'s even even better. Of course, the wind was great coming back. By the way, Willy B.'s is now open on Sunday. Did not check the hours. We did not see any other riders, just cows, and passed a train going the other way as we rode west on FR 94. Six of us rode: Doug, Rae, Tom, Bill H., Rob and myself.

It only requires 1, but I am glad I have 2

Sheldon Brown: 1944-2008

A cyclist's cyclist. More here and here.

Wet, Warm & Windy

Great morning to ride. No balaclava or gloves today. It wasn't raining, but the roads were very wet. I snapped one photo riding down Commercial Street, and then put my camera away to concentrate on avoiding manhole covers and debris that a tire might pick up and trash a fender. Good training ride for brevets on long wet nights.