Introductions - commuting in Minnesota

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livewombat
11-18-03, 06:19 PM
I've been commuting by bike off and on for 40 years, first with a 3-speed Dunelt that served well for 20 years, subsequently with a variety of upright singles and tandems (kids on back), then with recumbents, and now with a velomobile (but still using a recumbent as well. This has been my best year so far, with 5 straight months of not driving to work (and one full month of not driving at all). We've done a couple longish tours as well -- Salzburg to Hungary on a RANS Screamer (500 miles) and south to north across the Netherlands in Cab-Bikes (about 250 miles). No racing. Never (yet) a 100-mile day, but some 100-km days.

late
11-18-03, 06:35 PM
Hi,
did you go in to the Augustiner Keller in Salzburg? Great beer. Welcome.
goatmeal
11-18-03, 10:45 PM
Minneapolis can be quite difficult to traverse in the winter months. Do you ride the greenway or another trail on your commute, or like many of us are you subjected to the shoulder. Minneapolis is a great town for bike commuting, too bad more people don't.

Welcome :)
Phillip

livewombat
11-22-03, 06:13 PM
Minneapolis can be quite difficult to traverse in the winter months. Do you ride the greenway or another trail on your commute, or like many of us are you subjected to the shoulder. Minneapolis is a great town for bike commuting, too bad more people don't.

Welcome :)
Phillip
I'm lucky enough to have some bike paths on my commute. If I'm willing to go an extra mile or so, the non-bike-path segment is just 9 blocks, but it's not the best 9 blocks in town. (Not the worst, either -- it's even bike-striped, but it includes one of the bikeway "discontinuities," where a striped bike lane connects to a bikeway via a block going the wrong way on a one-way street, through a parking lot or alternately turning left across three lanes of heavy traffic onto a busy non-striped one-way street and along another where all the traffic except the bike traffic is destined to turn right, leaving the cyclist to ride down the middle of a busy street or to stay to the right and risk being cut down by right-turning traffic.) It's five miles each way. I'm looking at heavy snow falling right now and wondering if the season is over.

Mary