Bike Lockers

Cool Poly-shelled bike lockers shield your bike from the elements. These are perfect for a place with loads of rain.

These particular ones were near a rail station in SanDiego along side the Coaster -- which is a commuter transit rail in San Diego that services the Northern Beach communities and Downtown.

I hope MN sticks to building more rails and securing safe transport routes for bikes to any location in the safest and fastest way.

Midtown Market

maKE it to the Old Sears Building on Lake and Chicago St. Now is the time. It is a warm International marketplace with live music, FOOD, gifts and grocery. This historic building that is now the Midtown market place. Look for it Especially now that their is a bike-able way there from the Greenway.

You have to bike past the Market and on the North East side is a new ramp.

This painting may be in there? Artist unknown.

Twin bikes in the Twin Cities

You ride with your partner when it's cold and things are just so much warmer. These bikes are siamese twins with a cab on the back for groceries (or snow).

The far bike steers, the yellow bike has a stationary front bars and the wood that is locked to the tree connects the forks so when the far biker steers the yellow bike follows.

Great set up bike-Gyver! Cheers for your commitment to sticking together. You ride together. You stay together. Your stuck together. You live together. Mount together and ride!

People bike in the Winter

More and more I read articles about people who bike through the entire winter. Living north of the 40 Parallel you have some consistent cold so sure. This is a big deal.

The Wall Street Journal ran article on killer winter biking gear (if you have the cash to pay for a $250 pair of Lake boots). Even Time magazine mentioned winter biking in an article on "going green."

Today I get a Global Warming Action email from the Sierra Club. They have an article with this weblink on biking. http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Recreation/wintercycling.htm
The guy who wrote the article is from Alaska.

I breezed throught the article, as I believe I have read it before. I think it stresses the fact that on cold days you may wimp out. Also that you are a super minority. Lastly that winter riding is safe (because of all the layers you have on) and that it is FUN!!!

Slow down and plan a trip to work on your bike. Spiked tires are nice but I took them off; the sliding is so minimal. You just have to be alert to the big ice chunks in the road.

Mr. Global Warming

I'm walking from the garage to the house. It is always the cold days that make heat so nice. Always the hot days that make many wish it was cold. Such a sweet-n-sour existence to living in MN. You have the best of both worlds. I am thinking at the back of my head, "If only it was warm." These thoughts came strong and made me warm. "I create my own heat." "That stinging sensation is not my frozen toes, frozen face or rosey frozy nosey." It is HOT.

I was warmly fooling myself I was somewhere else, sipping a cold something on a warm beach. The sun. Oh that sun right there behind me.

I was hot. SEE!

We just had the coldest night here in Minnesota. We are covered white. The Last two years have been dull and brown till the New year. I heard on the radio that MN has not been this covered in snow this early since 1996; the entire state under at least 3" of snow. Last night was to be the coldest of the year. Single digits all night.