Tuesday, May 1, 2007

City Bikes, City Routes

Last week we got to hang out a bit with Tarik (of Moscaline fame). He came for dinner on Thursday on his folding bike --ingeneous and fun!

On the weekend, Chad and I rode around town:
Saturday's first destination was the IHOP, and we made a city-riding day of it, including stops at the mall, Tricentennial Park, Route 66 Malt Shop for lunch, and Lowe's for something Chad needed to attach a fender. Here's that route.

On Sunday after church we went with the Polkadot Family to lunch at Fuddruckers, ate good burgers (if you're keeping a burger count, yes, that's 2 in 2 days), played tabletop napkin football, talked for a couple of hours. This was the farthest that I'd ridden on my mixte, the Suteki (and in a skirt). On the way home I picked up a big ol' goathead thorn around the area of the highway crossing-- thorn resistant tube was no match for this guy. These thorns are the reason we generally avoid bike paths and stick to the roads, where cars do us the service of sweeping debris away. See map here.

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