Wormtown Anthem

Bob Jordan says it better than I ever could:

Wormtown Anthem

Not a damn thing.

Lest you still think that Massachusetts is the land of brie and chardonnay (I stole that from some dude I met), there are the lovely folks of Lunenburg to remind us otherwise.

Example # 1

Example # 2

Also, there's Matt Chester's spiel, which has some tunes.

Snow is melting, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. We get out and play in and around it when we can.

KES

winter is here!

It's snowing here and in Athens GA , so winter is officially here. Luckily I got in one last ride around the reservoir before the snow started yesterday.


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nil.

No much riding going on here with the arrival of Billy-boy last month, though I dId get out for a cold (24 deg) road ride this morning, just to make sure that I can still do it.

worm-tamer

No much happening here right now. Fortunately, there's rock:

HUBonWHEELS

All 4 of us got up bright and early yesterday to head over to Boston to do the Hub on Wheels ride. Except for having to abandon my bandana in a porta-john, it was a great ride.

The organizers had arranged for cheap parking ($3 vs. $10 - $35) in the massive Government Center parking deck, so naturally everyone (including us) drove in instead of using the generally OK public transit. This made for a traffic jam that would have been funny if it weren't so frustrating. Hundreds of pissed of would-be cyclists sitting in traffic waiting for their turn to get into the deck. But we got there in time to sneak in after the first wave of the start.

The ride itself was pretty great. The first 7 miles or so were an out and back on Storrow drive along the Charles River. If I remember right, the road is part of the property that some rich old-time dude gave to the city way back to create the Esplanade with the idea of preserving all of this land inside the city. Somewhere along the way, this original intent was ignored and what was supposed to be part of the parkland is now a honking big expressway. So it was nice to have the road turned over to cyclists for at least this brief time.

The rest of the ride was on open city streets, through several parks, a big cemetery, and finally a few miles along the Harborwalk before heading back into downtown. This was all great, though the Harborwalk part was a little too much sidewalk riding to feel legit. It's a great place to stroll or take a leisurely ride with kids, but not a route for a big-ass bike ride like this. Still, though, I liked seeing triathletes on their tricked out Cervelos have to pick their way along between the dog-walkers and fishermen.

There's also something about these huge rides that always sets me on edge. It's great to get out and ride through city with a feeling that there is some safety in numbers, but I'm always surprised how many clueless cyclists there are. I don't know who's more naive - (1) ME for not realizing that a ride with 5,000 people won't have a good population of riders who don't know how to ride in a group and/or who think this is the place to prove how fast they are or (2) THEM, the people who come out to an urban ride with 5,000 others thinking that they can treat this like their Tuesday nite hammerfest out in the suburbs ("On your right!", "What's our pace, Fred?")

OK - enough bitchin' - riding bikes is fun. Next year we take the train.