{"id":321,"date":"2007-05-16T21:40:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/national-bike-month-ramblings\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T01:41:28","slug":"national-bike-month-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/national-bike-month-ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bike Month Ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May is National Bike Month. The League of American Bicyclists is promoting it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/programs\/bikemonth\/\">Bike to Work Week<\/a>, from 14-18 May, and Bike to Work Day, Friday 18 May. I&#8217;ve been riding my bike to work since last Monday and enjoying it pretty well. The body shop tells us the minivan should be ready to pick up tomorrow, so I&#8217;m not certain I&#8217;ll actually end up riding to work for the entirety of Bike to Work Week. So far I haven&#8217;t seen a single other bicyclist along my commute route, which covers parts of Hardy McManus Road, Halali Farm Road, Blanchard Road, Hereford Farm Road, and Bel Air Road. <\/p>\n<p>Today I missed getting got in a pretty good soaker of a rain shower by about three minutes. My neighbor pulled up next to me just as it was starting to sprinkle and I was hammering down the hill towards our neighborhood. He rolled down his window and started chatting with me! It was kind of entertaining but I&#8217;m not used to trying to look to the side and talk like that to someone in an SUV. I wonder if it&#8217;s easier to converse with the driver of a sedan or wagon, since they&#8217;re lower to the ground and you don&#8217;t have to crane your neck up? You don&#8217;t see too many big vehicles supporting the pro peleton; even in the USA it&#8217;s mostly sedans and wagons. My favorite at the Tour de Georgia last year was Jittery Joe&#8217;s convertible Mini Cooper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is National Bike Month. The League of American Bicyclists is promoting it with Bike to Work Week, from 14-18 May, and Bike to Work Day, Friday 18 May. I&#8217;ve been riding my bike to work since last Monday and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/national-bike-month-ramblings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}