Was charging a new bike light for the ride home so I got off late. Beautiful ride in, perfect temperature, maybe a touch on the warm side. Took a new route and had a mountain biker ask me if I wanted to draft him. Glad I declined (was having a great ride without all the worries of drafting) as he turned just down the road (headed for the university). Didn't feel slighted as I know he hadn't just ridden 16 miles . Anyway, managed to get a really nice 20 mile ride in. Found an intersection where every metal piece of refuse that had fallen there had been pressed down into the road (probably during the summer) and then polished smooth by tires, I saw a cool curly cue spring (pressed in sideways) that looked like a spinning wheel, several tire weights, and some bolts. Looked like a a public art project in the pavement kinda. Do our tax dollars actually pay for streetsweepers or has that department been cut out of the budget for awhile? Hmmm. I wonder who one could pester about get a streets shoulders swept? The city bicycle coordinator?