Biking Quotes I like

These will also be shown throughout this blog --

It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ~Author Unknown

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. ~J.B. Jackson

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy

It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day. ~Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles

Heat Index Over the 100's

Really makes me not want to ride.
It rained last night. The heat index is still supposed to be in the upper 100's today...therefore my lazy/heat exhaustion butt did NOT get on the bike this morning as I had planned.
Meh.
Will make up for it tomorrow and Friday...
and there's the King of Evil that's going on this weekend. Maybe we'll attend that on Saturday to give us some riding stuff to do ...
Maybe...

Thoughts on a Morning Ride....

- No Rain today = Riding the Trek in, I like riding the Trek in. She's a lot lighter and more streamline than the Miyata..maybe one day I'll get the guts to actually race.
- It's a lot less muggy this morning that it was Monday morning. Did it rain last night or something?
- Hello Mr. Cranky Confrontational White Aurora's House. I still find it very amusing that I know EXACTLY where you live should you attempt to mess with me on my ride again.
- OOOH...the light is GREEN! MUST.GO.FASTER.TO.MAKE.IT
-YAAAY made the light..and got up to 26mph to do so :).
- So my 'pace' speed seems to have gone up to 19mph now. Wonder what I can do on these short rides to and from work to increase that.
- Hello Crossing Guards! :)
- Every neighborhood I've rode through this morning smells like chlorine. Did everyone get their pools cleaned last night or something?
- YAY WORK! And even got here a minute early!

Events I'm going to try to attend in the St. Pete area...

The first one I'm going to be representing 'The Skirts' so I'm pretty excited about that.
I believe there was something going on on Davis Island within the next two months as well. As soon as I get more info on that, I'll post that as well. It should be a fun/good time.
I just gotta figure out how to carry the camera and the bike all at once now :)

If he can do it, why can't you?

Obama...
Probably one of the busiest men on the planet right now.
Biking.





He's even in JEANS..and there are a ton of mods that could be done to his bike to make it more comfortable for him.
But regardless
HE'S DOING IT

So...when are YOU gonna get on a bike?! *points at you*
NO EXCUSES! :P

Green Stats and Month Review

Not as much riding as I would have liked, but still in the hundreds for the month and that's what I'm aiming for until October (when I'm done with school and can focus more on riding)

Green Stats

Total Workout Days: 151
Distance Traveled: 1,727.94 mi.
Gas Saved: 96.00 gallons
Money Saved: $334.07
Carbon Offset: 1,858.5 lbs. of CO2

May 2009 Stats

Total Distance:165.73 mi.	Total Calories:1,495 (kcal)	Weight Change:4.0 lbs.
Average Sleep:n/a	Average Morale:n/a	Min. / Max.:123.0 lbs. / 127.0 lbs.