August 25, 2011
by Bikeyface
The Best Part of Biking
The best part of commuting by bike is that I don’t have to spend part of the day here:
Instead, my days go like this:
And before you assume this was a bike ride for leisure or exercise, it was actually a trip to the grocery store. I needed an eggplant.
(And yes, this awesome music follows me everywhere I go.)
Yours is one of the very few blogs that I see the alert in Google reader and I click to leave Google Reader to see it in it’s full glory.
amazing…as always. You are going to get a reputation for excellence if you keep this up 🙂 What did you use to film your ride?
Thanks! It was shot on a crappy old Nikon Coolpix (still camera w/video mode + gorilla pod/bungee cables) It broke soon after this…
I kept thinking your knee was going to crash into the camera; great short film!
Damn, you pedal fast 🙂
I find I’ve come to appreciate my slight pooch and love handles, because it means I eat well and enjoy myself (it’s from a little too much good food, not from eating nasty ickyness), and I appreciate that I get daily exercise just in the course of going places, because it means that my little pooch isn’t a big gut 🙂
Great video!
Here’s one of my wife and I going grocery shopping together 🙂
http://blip.tv/portlandize/grocery-shopping-music-3737252
Eating well and enjoying life is important- I could not function without dessert or pasta. But in the past the gym it always failed because it felt purposeless. So now I exercise towards food 😉
To think I spent all those years in the gym when I was your age. If only I had ridden my bike more back then. Bike rides are so much more appealing.
Nice video and Dave’s video is pretty cool too.
What part of Boston is this charming burg and why are there so many cars?
-Not Bob.
This is Cambridge MA, and actually it was shot on a holiday weekend so that’s about 20% of the normal amount cars, bikes, pedestrians. Sometime I want to capture rush hour, it would be more representative.
aaahhh Love the vid – I tried to film myself cycling today and utterly failed http://bit.ly/ohOgra but will work hard on getting better 🙂
Happy cycling, A.
It’s great to have a soundtrack for your rides! 🙂 Nice blog.
Nice to have a soundtrack while you ride. Nice blog too!
Cool :). What song is this?
If I took a video of biking in my city, all you’d see is a blur — not because I’m going so fast, but because all we have is a mix of dirt roads and roads as old as dirt, and me/the bike/the camera would be bouncing too much :D.
The song is Flaming Heart by M Ward
Lol my gym was totally like that!!
Video: Damn look at all those potholes!
LOL, wtf is it with gyms and Fox News? It’s the same out here on the West coast. Now I ride by my old gym and it’s very hard to not blow a raspberry at the people lined up on the other side of the glass pedaling away on the stationary cycles…
Damn your grocery store is far!
In Tel Aviv we have one in every neighborhood.
Hello! I love your images so much. Great video too. I used to bike a lot like that, staying far to the right, or even in the right tire track. What I’ve found is that drivers often do the lazy, close-pass when I gave them so much space (but the lane is not wide enough to share side-by-side). When I practice #LaneControl AKA #TakeTheLane I have had much fewer incidents of drivers yelling at me, horn honking and I’m fully clear of the car door zone.
Unless I’m turning right, I stay in line with cars at the red lights too. I found that drivers get mad when they pass you a second time (also you don’t want mad drivers passing you a second time) sneaking up to the stop line on the right (unless in a bike lane) also puts the rider in the door zone. I was doored by a passenger quickly jumping out at the red light once. Luckily it was uphill so I wasn’t going fast.
Safe riding my friend!