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BikeSage Rides Downtown
Saturday, 13 September 2008
The other day, BikeSage rode into downtown with Jim, the talented individual who owns NovaEdge (the company that built this webpage).
This was only Jim’s second time bicycling into work. While he managed just fine the first time he rode in, he wanted a few tips from an experienced BikeSage to enhance his ride.
After looking over his ride, BikeSage noticed that while everything was in pretty good working order, Jim’s rack was woefully slanted, instead of being level. With a quick adjustment, the rack was made level. With a level rack, BikeSage showed Jim how to securely bungee his backpack with all of his work clothes onto the back rack.
Once we started speeding downhill, Jim remarked how nice it was to not have to wear a heavy backpack on this warm, late-summer day.
The ride was smooth, traversing some streets with bike lanes and wide shoulders, while others had more traffic. In order to avoid a hill as we entered downtown, we decided to take Spring St. instead and to our great surprise, we passed the Farmers Market at City hall.
Since bicycling is as much about discovery as it is getting someplace (and since we both didn’t have to be at meeting anytime soon), we both decided to stop and had some of the best tasting peaches we had eaten all summer. The spontaneous stop at the Farmers Market turned a good ride into a great one!
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Thursday, 04 December 2008
Great suggestions - thanks Kathy!
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hi "bikesage". i stumbled across your blog and your services. the whole idea around what you provide is neat, but maybe your blog could use a little more personalization? i'm not sure i'd want to go on a ride for 2 hours with a "bikesage" but more rather another bicyclist. also, on future rides, you should try to document things with photos. some people, like myself are very visual people and pictures make things all the more interesting and will likely get you more readers.