Why It Seems Like Only Yesterday That I Was On The Bike! (if we lived on some planet where each day is 4 earth-months long)
Back in the saddle after too-long winter laziness. Actually with the way I kept in shape over the past 5 months, it’s safer to say I’m all over the saddle. Wind trainer looked good in the basement, all set up and ready to be used. And I would have used it, too, if it hadn’t been so cold down there, or if the kids had cleaned up the room, or if I wasn’t suffering from a case of the Malbec flu every weekend.
In any case, first day of commuting was 3/30. Time elapsed until I saw some stupid-commuter-trick was about 17 minutes. Stopped at light in-bound on Massachuetts Ave., right past Porter Square. To my left I catch a blur of motion as a cyclist rides down the middle of concrete median, runs the stop-light, bunny hops back up onto the median, and books on down the Avenue. And he was on what looked to be a nice road bike — not one you’d normally think of bunny hopping. Not that that should make a difference since he obviously didn’t care if he was broadsided while running the light. But he was a hell of a bike handler.
Today’s score — Bicyclists 1, internal combustion engines 0
Filed under: bike commute, massachusetts avenue, porter square
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