a speedy ride downtown on the bike path for an important meeting and got to my building only to discover I had forgotten my bike lock! The security guards have strict and I mean- strict- orders NO BICYCLES in the building under ANY circumstances. I plead and beg and guarantee them that should the building manager see me I will take full responsibility for this serious and potentially deadly infraction of this very important rule. Eventually, they very reluctantly concede (I've been a security guard and I know that they actually were at risk of losing their jobs or at the very least getting reamed should I get caught so I felt like a complete heel)

I sneak the bike into my office successfully, then run to my meeting, then run to the LBS and by a new lock (my wife's bike needs a new one anyway) but best of all end up buying a used dahon helios I'd been eying for a couple of weeks. I'll be bringing it to Rome and Lisbon in July. got back to my building and who do I see exit the building?- the building manager. I watch him head into another building and I run upstairs grab my bike and lock it across the street- phew! Then had a great laugh with the two security guards about my frantic undercover antics- so no damage done.

this will be my last week of Boston commuting for a while then it's off to NYC where I'll be buzzing all over the Big Apple on the big black buzz with the red milk crate on the back.

Any Rome, Lisbon or NYC riding ( I was living there before the west side bike path was completed so I'm looking forward to that) suggestions are welcome. IM me.