Man, I bet Levi is pissed he left RadioShack/Leopard/Nissan or whatever the heck they're called now! They finally made a TT bike to fit him!
I told you guys it was damp yesterday. The dirt road was a bit heavy under wheels.
And here's a leaked picture of the new SRAM Red shifter. Look a bit more Shimano-esque, eh? Definitely has a longer reach and a more prominent knob on the front. I'm looking for new parts, and my only real complaint about my old SRAM stuff was the size of the levers (too small) in my meathooks. I'll need to handle it before dropping the stacks though...Nothing else going on today. The weather was worse this morning, if that's possible. It's a bit like Portland out there today...or a Scooby Doo cartoon. Hell, we live three blocks from #1's school, and we DROVE this morning. Between the rain, fog, and darkness, visibility was about 100 yards. Couple that with the completely inept drivers/parents who are always in such a hurry to drop off their little lintheads, walking to school was a dangerous proposition this morning.
And in actual news that may affect people, Charleston, in their finite wisdom, has decided to BAN bicycles from the Connector. Ergo, there is no longer a way to get from West Ashley into Charleston. Good job guys, way to take two (or twenty steps backwards). If you remember, a cyclist was hit and killed on the bridge not too long ago. The driver got a ticket for a lane violation.
Let's do the math...
Guy gets hit killed + driver gets off with ticket = Charleston punishing cyclists for doing something that is perfectly legal. Sounds like it's time for a Critical Mass ride of epic proportions...
Plyos will be happening tonight at the Statehouse. Feel free to swing by and jump around.
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SCDOT is 'forcing' the hand of the local transportation. Signs went up today on the connector. Two weeks of education citations and then somewhere in the next two months ticketing. The alternate route to James Island is over two drawbridges that have ~50 feet of steel grating in lieu of asphalt. Thems some fun times when it gets oily/wet. I hope it isn't so, but I'm almost sure someone else will get killed before they open the W.A. bikeped.
I've never ridden the WA Connector, but have had the pleasure of the metal grating on the drawbridges. Unsettling is a good word to describe the feeling.
We used to cross a bridge in Florida with the metal grating. A few guys went down on a rainy ride. It looked like an episode of "The Walking Dead".
And you're probably correct in that someone is gonna get hurt, if not killed, before things get better down there.
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