I Want To Ride My Bicycle: Season 3 Countdown
By Mitch Berg
It’s close. So close I can almost taste the road salt splashing in my face.
Bike commuting season seems to be darn near here.
I didn’t start until mid-June in 2007, because that was the earliest I could get my bike working.
Last year, I was raring to go on April 1 – but the weather, you may recall, didn’t start cooperating until the third week in April; we even had a snowstorm in the second week of the month. Still and all, it was a great biking season for me; from April 20-somethingth until early October. It felt great.
This year? The ice is mostly off the roads; the daytime highs are in the forties and fifties. The morning lows are still a tad chilly, and it looks like we’re in for a four-or-five day rainy stretch starting this weekend…
…but I don’t know that I care. The bike’s in the shop for a tune-up as we speak; with any luck, I’ll tee up this year’s biking season Thursday morning. And if the weather doesn’t totally close in, the weekend looks like a gorgeous one to kick off with a ride out to The Patriot, one of my favorite weekend diversions last year.
Just saying – I’m pretty excited about this.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
“The bike’s in the shop for a tune-up as we speak..”
WTF?? It’s a bicycle, right? Pedals and a chain?
You mean you can’t squirt grease and tighten a chain?
Your sundress is billowing, and I must now avert my eyes!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I can squirt grease and tighten chains, but I’ve got a braking problem that’s dogged me for a while.
I’m stimulating the economy.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
You shuld chop that thing Mitch. Put some ape hangers and longass struts on it.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
“I’ve got a braking problem that’s dogged me for a while.”
You should have let me know earlier; I’d have sent my daughter over to adjust it for you! 😉
March 17th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
It’s pot hole season Mitch – be sure to have your tires checked as well. Rough roads are hard on them. 60’s yesterday, today…. and now the darn weatherman is predicting maybe another round of snow heading our way. (Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!)
Ride! Ride while you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Great – now I can’t get ‘Queen’ tunes out of my head…
March 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
OoooKay, well this thread has now officially become a teh gay zone. And I’m getting out of here before Peevee shows up in his thong.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Be sure to wave when you pass by Four Oaks Rd on your way in! 😉