From the Pavement's Edge

From Yehuda Moon   Yeah, yeah…I rode my bike to work today. The novelty of Bike to Work Day is gone. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in the importance of Bike to Work Day. I will participate in Colorado Bike to Work Day by volunteering at a breakfast station. I will encourage non-cyclists or less than daily bike [...]

On Friday I took a much needed personal day. I didn’t take it because I needed the day off however. I took the day because Bean’s babysitter, backup babysitter, and backup to the backup babysitter were all out of town. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m burned out after four years in an entry level position [...]

I was ready when I walked into to weekly office meeting this morning. I was expecting to hear: “What’s the square root of 81?” I expected this question because a few weeks ago when my boss came in late to the meeting I asked: “What’s 5 plus 4?” He replied: “9,” and I added: “What a coincidence, [...]

Saturday morning I left the house at 5:25am headed for Three Sisters. Dawn had not yet broken and there were no cars on the road until I reached Ridge. !@#$ Ridge. I approached Ridge from the north to make a right turn to head west. Independence has a striped shoulder and Ridge is just a big ole [...]

The numbers are in. It’s not bad, but its not good. April: 376 miles, 3rd highest mileage out of four so far in 2012, 3 miles less than the 2012 average so far. If you multiply the average out the projection for the year is 4,554 miles. Ugh. But the 260 miles in February really kicked the legs [...]

Has cycling become so normal in my life there is no novelty left? Have I stopped loving the act of riding a bicycle only to hate the obstacles to doing so? Yesterday I did an odd thing. I rode my bike 0.9 miles (round trip) down to Echter’s (garden center). I meandered around, picking up some seeds, [...]

I ride up hills because I enjoy the challenge, and I really enjoy bombing down the backside. The proprioceptive stimulation I get from rocketing down from airy heights is unrivaled. The effort to climb to the heights will challenge your will and stamina. The bomb-run descent will test your focus and reflexes. Up and down makes [...]

If you noticed no new posts in the past week then you are truly a sick individual, subjecting yourself to the indignation of following a hack cycling blog. I took the whole tribe cross country, though no family truckster was involved, for a whirlwind trip so that Bean could be flower girl for our flower girl. Decades [...]

No Bean pickup this afternoon so I rode Minus. The speed afforded by skinny tires, relative low weight and less backend make for a nice commute. I didn’t break any records this morning, but I still managed a respectable 45 minute commute. The road bike provides a nice, simple and enjoyable ride. I’d prefer to have panniers [...]

Not too long ago I was in a group of people where someone made the comment: “People come to Colorado to get rich.” The statement hit me right to my core. It’s true of me. I wasn’t necessarily looking to get rich, but I was seeking an avenue to more wealth than I believed I had [...]

My cubicle sentence is aptly termed “permit review,” and that really just about sums it up. I simply apply regulations to submissions , verify compliance, and then move the submissions on down the line. Well, I also argue with people a lot. I argue about things I have little or no control over. The arguments I [...]

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My shed building shenanigans over the weekend left my body in wrack and ruin. I overdid it. Monday morning I dragged my ragged self out of bed, moaning and groaning all the way to a semi-wakeful state. Ugh. I avoided making eye contact with the Cannonball. It leaned there behind the couch on its kickstand nonchalantly, as [...]

Last week the subject of licensing bicycles came up in conversation. I can’t remember if I’ve ever really broached the subject on the Pavement’s Edge, and because I’m too lazy to read back through four years of posts to find out, I’m just going to tackle it full-on. The arguments for compulsory bicycle licensing are few, and [...]

I’m really not into organized sports. I was the scrawny, bespeckled kid that always got beat up by the jocks in school. Actually, to say that I’m not into organized sports is a gross understatement, I tend to view sports mania much like cigarette smoking: imposing on my right not to participate. However, it was difficult not [...]

The X got some good utility mileage today. I made two trips to Home Despot and the family went to Echter’s. Wood for a shed has been ordered, plants were planted, and I made the second trip back to Home Despot to get replacement parts for the grill. So for the first time in a long [...]

I didn’t want to do this, but the whole thing wrecked my afternoon yesterday. I picked up Lily-Bean at Lindtopia and headed home. She’d had a sleepover so we had lots of gear lashed to the Cannonball. But it was no problem. We had a relatively uneventful ride until we were almost home. As I approached the railroad [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again for the record: I’m sort of a climate change agnostic. I don’t deny something wonky is going on with our climate. I won’t deny that humanity is pumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and ecosystems of the planet to great effect, and I don’t believe [...]

At four o’clock on the dot yesterday I stepped out into the fresh air above Golden. Wait, that smells like…smoke…wildfire. Wildfire! As I headed over to the babysitter’s off South Golden Road to pick up Bean the normal backdrop to my commuting life was haze-obscured. I asked the babysitter if there was a wildfire and she said [...]

…and not be the apocalypse? I’m still feeling the effects of Saturday (for sure) and maybe Friday. I was absolutely not going to ride yesterday, but I needed to go to Home Despot and I couldn’t justify driving the car a mile and a half. But I only rode a little over three miles and I took [...]