Two Wheeling

Join Us for Opening Day '08!

Please join us on Monday, May 12, for our 2008 opening day ride!.......this also corresponds to the first day of National Ride Your Bike to Work Week and we're having a big celebration all week, kicking off with breakfast on May 12 on the State House lawn. The Mayor will be there to announce the Bicentennial Bikeway Plan. There will be events and festivities all week.......you can check it all out at www.considerbiking.org.

There will be groups of bikers riding downtown on May 12 from different points all around the city, and we're hoping to have hundreds of cyclists at the kick-off breakfast.

Our group will meet at 6:15-6:30 at Urban Coffee next to Hill's Market near the starting point of the Olentangy bikepath. Calfee will again spring for coffee, etc. and we'll begin our ride downtown at 6:45-7:00.

If you live south of Worthington (e.g. Clintonville, University district, Victorian Village), you can either ride up to Urban Coffee to meet us, or hook up with us on the bikepath as we wind our way through your neighborhood.

I hope you can join us on May 12 for Opening Day '08!

I Do Miss White Castle

There's not much I miss about commuting by automobile, but there is one thing..........White Castle. Back in the old days, when I drove a car to work, I'd usually swing by the White Castle drive-through at Kenny and Henderson to get a cup of coffee. I love White Castle coffee.

Today was one of the rare days that I needed to drive to work and, of course, I immediately headed for White Castle (out of roughly 240 work days in a year, I will bike to work approximately 200 days........if my friends see me on one of my rare "car days", they give me hell ).  The drive-through was stacked up, so I parked and went in to get my coffee. As I walked up to the counter I could hear my favorite White Castle employee taking an order from the drive-through, "Welcome to Whhhhhite Castle, can I take your order?" "A medium black coffee, please." "That'll be 80 bucks, rock on around to the second window." Ah............it took me back.

Spring is always wonderful, especially after a long winter.........but on a bike it is TRULY GLORIOUS. As the spring bulbs emerge and the flowering trees and shrubs burst into bloom, our merry band of bikers shed their winter spandex and balakavas and don their shorts and lightweight jackets.......another sure sign of spring.

Despite the fact I drove TO work, I will be at Bill's feet at 5 for our Friday night ride home.....hope to see you there.