Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

Lance Armstrong Theme for iGoogle

I use iGoogle for my home page and I discovered that Google has added a slew of new themes. I had been using an astronomy theme, but today I found a Lance Armstrong theme at http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/gallery.html.

April 27, 2008

Things Look Different Going the Other Way

We had a club ride today and it covered many of the same roads that we usually ride, but we took many of them in opposite the usual direction. The roads look surprising different when you go a different way. Downhills become uphills. You see the opposite sides of buildings. There are all sorts [...]

April 23, 2008

Another Bike Blogger

Matthew Yglesias a political blogger has bought a bike. He is planning some downtown DC commuting on it and blogging about it.
For example, the city fathers of Washington, DC should consider that
though it’s nice that they’ve established some bike lanes, the key
thing would be for the lanes to connect with one another and go [...]

April 20, 2008

Earth Day Ride

The Pedalers sponsored a ride from Baker Park to the Earth Day celebration sponsored by The Common Market, where we had a display. Being the Pedalers the ride took a 24 mile route to get to the event which was being held just two miles away. Bill, Catherine, George, and Kathy hosted the display which [...]

April 10, 2008

Lights and Pizza Ride

A Lights in Pizza Ride in April is a much different experience than in January. We left Luke’s Pizza at 6:30 PM with the sun still shining and temperatures in the 60s. We rode until almost 8:00 PM before we needed to have lights on. It was good to get out with that group. I [...]

April 2, 2008

Warmer but Still Windy

I got out tonight and rode the same route as last Tuesday. I once again had to fight a headwind on the way out, but it was very nice otherwise. I was able to wear shorts. It was a quite enjoyable ride.
YTD: 336.4 miles
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