On Riding in the snow and other things

Dan, from the BCC posted a link to the YouTube video which is helpful if someone wanted to know why a cyclist should ride in a pack.



Another thing I found is that the Subprime Primer I included here on Friday is too small to read, I tried to enlarge it but then half the images got truncated by Blogger. So here is a link to the Picasa images, you will have to click the slide button.

Anyway a random thought, if by Wednesday, everyone knows it is going to snow on Saturday, then on Saturday it does snow, say 10cm, should Queen Street be plowed by Monday? Answer, no, because Queen Street runs through Toronto and I guess the property tax I pay does not justify plowing one of the most heavily utilized streets for alternative transportation in the city. (Here Alternative transportation includes public transit, the Queen Street car carries more people than the Go Train which itself carries six times as many people as the Don Valley Park Way, and bikes, Queen is year round loaded with cyclists, like me!)

I really do not like winter. I keep day-dreaming about going for a nice long ride with nothing but shorts and a jersey. Then I come back to Earth and remember just how cold I am about to become with my upteen million layers of clothes on. Being hot is alright with me, being cold sucks. (I guess my day-dreams are not helped by the fact that there is a picture of a Transition Frame by my laptop.)

Lesley found out that a bike store in Shanghai is hiring, I replied, how good is the salary. Actually if I wanted a job in a bike shop I could just apply to Dornellas, they're hiring too, except lets be real here. I am a computer guy, not a bike mechanic, I hardly know which of a chain is up.