Clipless Fail

I love my clipless pedals. There is no better feeling than hauling up a hill out of your seat so fast you want to puke. This feeling is facilitated by clipless, which allow you to charge hills like a battle-hungry warrior. There is really only one disadvantage I see to riding in this manner, and I experienced that disadvantage just the other night.

Riding clipless means just the opposite really...you are clipped in to your pedals, so to speak. This means that, every once in a while, you don't properly eject your feet from your pedals. This happened to me (pre-tequila mind you)the other night at the busiest intersection on Butler in front of a line of traffic and 4 of my friends. While biking (actually we were stopped at the light) to the bar I slow-motion crashed to the pavement. Skidding my knee, hands, and slamming my thigh into my frame, all I could do was humbly laugh.

Really if I learned anything from this experience, it is simply this: don't stop at intersections! That and everyone should always have a video camera attached to their helmet.

-The Velodict

Bikes, People, Scenery, and the Great Outdoors

Occasionally certain periods of time require special documentation - this is one of those times. After graduating with a degree in engineering, there is an immense amount of steam that has been built up from spending countless hours hunched over enormous 20-pound books in poorly ventilated computer labs with no windows. These hours included times where I would sit often with a perplexed look on my faces, sometimes shouting obscenities when, at 2 in the morning, after working 6 to 8 hours straight on writing five pages of differential calculus combined with chemistry kinetics I would still not have an acceptable answer. I am not the only one who would enter the windowless labs on a day that announced itself to be gorgeous, and wouldn't leave the building until late at night when a nighttime snow storm would be taking place.

This blog will detail the exact opposite of the aforementioned scenario: it involves bikes, people, scenery, and the great outdoors.