I had an unexpected ride to work today; it seems that my car battery is toast, so I rode. It was beautiful out. In light of current events, I've treated myself to a day off tomorrow; I'll pull the battery, load it up on my Big Dummy, and pedal down to get a replacement. As a bike nerd, I find it almost fun when things like this happen. Bicycles sure make car problems easy to deal with.

On days that I ride, I usually walk up the street to grab some lunch. I came up on this lovely lady at the crosswalk today. Of course I nicely tried to tell her that her helmet was backwards; she gave me a really friendly look, and continued on her way. I tried......