Today I decided to commute in my office clothes. I don't know why, but I just got dressed, hopped on the fender'd fixed gear and rode in easy. In the cool morning, and six miles of it in the shaded Greenway it worked out fine.

There is a younger guy who rides in sometimes, I guess more often than not these days, and I've never seen him in anything but street clothes. Maybe self-conscious at the office or he just likes to take it easy, but just as I was musing about that he happened to roll up. Most days, like today, he rides a really nice Bottechia race bike, I'd trade in a heartbeat. But he also has an old Trek hard-tail with a milk carton on back, which I thought was a pretty neat commuter, and I hadn't seen in it months so I asked him about that. It took him a minute to recall what I was talking about but he said he had loaned it to a homeless guy, who lost it!