My super secret bike gang hasn't been Rolling in the Starlight lately, so we had a ride tonight starting ostensibly at 7:45. We met up downtown, and waited for people to finish their drinks and appetizers. Around 8:30 we finally rolled out. About 7 of us, all told. We went through south campus, then up along the trail on the west end then through ( Read more... )

Beautiful weather on Wednesday, so I opted to go for another evening ride. Rolled down to Virtuous Cycles at 6, and met up with Joe from my super secret bike gang. We headed out and made pretty good time to the southwest. The breeze was light and from the northwest, so the small headwind was on the first leg. Got back with plenty of daylight ( Read more... )

After a year and a half, I finally had a Sunday afternoon free to go down to Virtuous Cycles to attend bike stand Sunday again. I managed to get a lot done ( Read more... )

Rode out to Prophetstown park this morning to meet up with some roller derby folks and ride around. One was just getting into riding and had a shiny new bike. She is rather short, and had spent two months finding a bike that fit her. I think she got a nice one, and it's bright orange ( Read more... )

Met up with Kate from roller derby to go on a ride exploring the trails on the west side. She overslept, so I rode around for a few miles while waiting. We met on the Pedestrian Bridge and went over to the Wabash Heritage Trail to take it down to South River Road. We took that to US 231, That's a busy highway, but it's new, and has a very wide ( Read more... )

I gave my final presentation for my summer class on Monday. Our last class session was a get-together at Buffalo Wild Wings ( Read more... )

Managed to keyhole my ride to class on Monday between afternoon thunderstorms ( Read more... )

Rode to class last week. Meant to get in a ride before leaving for origins, but general lack of sleep got in my way. I figured that not sleeping before a four hour road trip was a bad idea ( Read more... )

Last month a close friend of the Lafayette bicycling community disappeared. A body was discovered in the wreckage of a school fire in Illinois. It has not yet been confirmed yet that this was our friend, but it was near where he was last seen, and the fire happened soon after he was last heard from ( Read more... )

After work (I work third shift now), I met up with a friend from the local roller derby team. She was up for a 20 mile ride ( Read more... )