Archive for May, 2006

Greg Lemond

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Greg Lemond is the honorary national chairman of the ADA’s Tour de Cure
When did that happen? This is very exciting. I’m hoping that helps the publicity of the events. I sent my begging letter for the NEC out on Monday. I raised $5,000 last year. I doubt I can do that again, but [...]

Attention all you Torontoans .. Torontonians .. Torontoites .. Torontonistas .. uh, whatever

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Zipcar is coming your way.
I’ve been using it for years. Now you can totally ditch that car.

Note to self

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Always look in pockets before doing laundry.
As a result, there will be no route map posted for the Portsmouth TdC ride as the cue sheet is now in a billion tiny wet yellow fragments plastered to the inside of the washing machine.

Portsmouth Tour de Cure

Monday, May 8th, 2006

So I did the Portsmouth Tour yesterday. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. Seems like there was a headwind no matter which way your turned!
I must have been born 20 minutes late. How in the world can I get up at 4:00 in the morning and still be 20 mintues late in starting? [...]

It’s 5:00 am

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

and I’m off to Portsmouth.
Updates as events warrant.

Why are cyclists so angry?

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

A good article. It’s not much different here. Except, of course, Toronto is leaps and bounds ahead of Boston in being bike friendly. Boston still hasn’t replaced their bicycle liaison in city hall that was fired, what? five years ago?
Number of bike lanes in Boston: 0
Why are cyclists so angry?
via Bike Refugee

Racing

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I’m totally not following racing this year. I wonder why that is.
I got a disappointing note from MediaZone.com:
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: MediaZone
Subject: RE: Giro (#8678-45372451-7231)
Greetings,
Thank you for contacting MediaZone Billing and Technical Support!

To the best of our knowledge we will not be broadcasting the Giro d’Italia this year.

Regards,
MediaZone Billing and Technical [...]

Mayday, 2006

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Welcome to National Bike Month!
It seems that depression has been setting in on me again, but I did get out on the bike yesterday which seems to have remedied it quite a bit. It’s like it’s the severity is directly proportion to the time spent off the bike.
I felt great yesterday. I so love my [...]