Thursday, May 15th, 2008
National Bike to Work Day Friday is National Bike to Work Day (or walk to work day, but come on, who's gonna do that?). I'm celebrating this national holiday by renting a stretch Hummer limo and riding it all around town with a megaphone, telling people on bikes how awesome I think they are. I will be handing out candy and cigarettes to children. Should be fun for the whole family!

Or I'll just bike to work as usual.

I took my bike in for a tune-up this week, and I have to give a shout out to Bike Tek of Springfield, Illinois. They were totally awesome at squeezing me in right away and having the bike done very quickly. They replaced my tires, chain, the brakes -- and they cleaned it up like it was brand new. It has never ridden so well since I bought it, and I couldn't be happier.



I got some new tires because I have developed a problem with flats as of late. The route to my new workplace is much more questionable than either of my two old routes, and there is always a place or two where I have to try and avoid freshly broken glass. The new tires have a layer of kevlar or something that should help keep them full of air. We'll see how it goes.

For anyone in town who's interested in the route, here's a map (click the link below the map for a larger version):


http://img.humzoo.com/daveheinzel/full/daveheinzel_0_4....

I'd love to get some sort of collaborative, online map going where bikers around the town could comment on roads and point out good routes, but I'm not quite sure what tool would be best. I'm sure Google has something, but I'm having issues with their maps program tonight (took forever and a day to load that whole map above). Anyway, an idea for later down the road.