I will be able to leave town for distant locations! I will be able to buy more than a saddlebag full of groceries, and take the dogs to the park without running them thru neighborhoods and forests! The freedom! The speed! The convenience!
Honestly, things won't change much when the clock turns to midnight tonight. I have long had a fondness of self powered commuting, and it is lifestyle choice that I enjoy experiencing. Sure, there will be many occasions that I will choose to take a car for practical reasons, but given the choice and opportunity I would much rather bike or run almost anywhere. It has been a rewarding month of bicycling, a really great time.
The final week Haunting Halloween Bike Commuting!
Thursday night my friend Alex and I biked out to Midway (amazingly enough my fourth trip out there in October) to visit the FearFest Haunted House. I do promotions for the event, and we had set up a after hours photo shoot of the haunted house. In true halloween style the fog was thick and it rained on us the entire way there and back. Alex even took a side slide across the road, smashing off one of his headlights (his second whipe out of the week!) It was great fun, and a little disturbing getting to photograph the haunted houses and their twisted staff of monsters and victims. I imagine that we were one of the few who had biked from Columbia to the event.
Saturday night was really one of the greatest bike events ever to happen in the world! The Bike Halloween Party! Bike in Movie, Bike Costume Parade around town and other goulish mayhem! A large group of costumed friends and I cruised the loop around downtown Columbia after dark. In true halloween parade fashion we threw candy to the unexpecting public and did whatever we could to get as much attention as possible! After the home football game there were many bar patrons that seemed to really enjoy our ridiculous antics! Who wouldn't enjoy seeing a legion of costumed night riders cruising down the street infront of you! After returning to the party we gathered around the bonfire and watched classic horror films (Halloween, and Evil Dead 2) on the outdoor movie theater area.
This Saturday is the MidMo Brr ride. The next big costume bike ride for many riders of the event. Based off the Iowa BRR ride (which is another long legacy in itself) this ride goes from Flatbranch Park to Rocheport. There will be a few hundred people on the ride. I encourage all of you to come and enjoy a great social bike ride down the katy trail. Hope to see you there.
Thanks for following the adventures of the Low-Car Diet. I hope that I have helped encourage/inspire some of you to commute by bike when the opportunity presents itself.
As we say on RAGBRAI -
Bottoms up and rubbersides down!
Cheers-
MikeD
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