210 in 2010 Challenge

I've spent the last few months pondering a new challenge for myself and I've finally decided on one. I'm calling it the "210 in 2010 Challenge". For this challenge I will attempt to commute to work by bike 210 of the 365 days in 2010.  How did I come up with 210 days? Well, I started with the 365 days that are in a year, and since this challenge is for commuting to work I discarded weekends and holidays. That gave me a total of 251 days. I'm the type of person who uses every last second of vacation and sick...

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Bike Withdrawals

I've been off my bike for well over a month and I'm starting have withdrawals. I spent hours online perusing bike commuting sites and blogs while daydreaming of commuting again. Screw it, I'm going to start riding into work again. Tomorrow sounds like a perfect day, what do y'all think? I'll deal with the running consequences late...

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More Commute Pics

Here are a few more photos taken of my commute route. I've also added all these images to a map if anyone cares to see exactly where they were taken. Some Canal. Well maintained bike lanes of Bradenton With bike lanes mysteriously disappearing Bradenton isn't the most bike friendly city around. Approaching a new traffic circle in a developing area of Manatee County Long Bar Pointe Development Sign. Looks like it's in the middle...

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My Poor, Neglected Superfly

My bad ass carbon fiber Gary Fisher Superfly is just sitting in my garage doing nothing. Actually, I guess that's not entirely true. Over the past couple months it's been collecting samples for it's research on "Particles of matter regarded as the result of disintegration", more commonly known as "dust". Not only is is covered in dust but, I had to pillage the saddle for use on my commuter. So there it sits covered in mud and dust with a lone seat post protruding from it's sleek "nude carbon" frame. What's that? Mud? Did I...

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