What's everyone doing for Bike Month?

Matt O'Toole

The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is doing for
Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or local
government have planned? Announce your event and share your ideas in our
comments section:

http://www.vabike.org/what-are-you-...ike-month-2008/

Matt O.

marika

"Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
newsan.2008.04.26.02.04.41.539182@letterboxes.org...
> The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is doing for
> Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or local
> government have planned? Announce your event and share your ideas in our
> comments section:
>
> http://www.vabike.org/what-are-you-...ike-month-2008/
>


I subscribe to a few Arlington letters and the only thing even remotely
related was this

http://www.arlingtonva.us/Portals/T...tsFestival.aspx

Jay

"Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
newsan.2008.04.26.02.04.41.539182@letterboxes.org...
> The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is doing for
> Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or local
> government have planned? Announce your event and share your ideas in our
> comments section:
>
> http://www.vabike.org/what-are-you-...ike-month-2008/
>
> Matt O.
>
>
I plan to be drunk, face down in a gutter all month.

Next month, I plan to wake up. God willing.

J.

Tom Keats

In article <XuWdnaPDSdSRO47VnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Jay" <jbollyn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> "Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
> newsan.2008.04.26.02.04.41.539182@letterboxes.org...
>> The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is doing for
>> Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or local
>> government have planned? Announce your event and share your ideas in our
>> comments section:
>>
>> http://www.vabike.org/what-are-you-...ike-month-2008/
>>
>> Matt O.
>>
>>
> I plan to be drunk, face down in a gutter all month.

Don't forget to lock your bike first.
Carry $5 so you don't get busted for vagrancy.
And watch out for those Starvation Army do-gooders --
they'll try to feed you thin soup & stale bread while
making you sing "Shall We Gather by the River" for your
dinner, and then they'll try to dress you in badly
dry-cleaned clothes that somebody else died in.
Chances are you'll hear "Love the sinner, hate the sin"
so much it'll drive you up the wall. Those Starvation
Army do-gooders don't know how to sin artfully.
Clumsy sinning is a Sin.

> Next month, I plan to wake up. God willing.

For me, ~every~ month is Bike Month.

Well, January, maybe not so much.

In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
(June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
to enforce our local MHL.)

But I kinda like the idea of Chicago's BikeWinter.
I respect that Chicagoans have the balls to even
have a BikeWinter.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Jay

"Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1de0vf.7b3.ln@vcn.bc.ca...
>
> In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
> (June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
> to enforce our local MHL.)
>
> But I kinda like the idea of Chicago's BikeWinter.
> I respect that Chicagoans have the balls to even
> have a BikeWinter.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom
>
> --
> Nothing is safe from me.
> I'm really at:
> tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
>
>
I forgot to mention: I will be wearing my noise-canceling headphones,
listening to Howard Stern on Sirius, while face down in the gutter.

I am so glad Artie Lange is still on the HS Show, I can't tell you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Lange

J.

Tom Keats

In article <_a6dnbjp_diGXI7VnZ2dnUVZ_qWtnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Jay" <jbollyn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1de0vf.7b3.ln@vcn.bc.ca...
>>
>> In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
>> (June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
>> to enforce our local MHL.)
>>
>> But I kinda like the idea of Chicago's BikeWinter.
>> I respect that Chicagoans have the balls to even
>> have a BikeWinter.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Tom
>>
>> --
>> Nothing is safe from me.
>> I'm really at:
>> tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
>>
>>
> I forgot to mention: I will be wearing my noise-canceling headphones,
> listening to Howard Stern on Sirius, while face down in the gutter.

Personally, I'd be inclined to just wait for good reading material
to blow my way. And I'd try to not roll over on my reading glasses[*].

I guess the gutter is as good a venue as any for
listening to HS.

I listen to George Norrie in the bathroom.


cheers,
Tom

--
"It's not fair! It's not fair!"
-- Burgess Meredith, in one of my fave Twighlight Zone episodes

jbollyn@gmail.com

On Apr 26, 7:54*pm, tkeats2...@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) wrote:
> In article <_a6dnbjp_diGXI7VnZ2dnUVZ_qWtn...@comcast.com>,
> * * * * "Jay" <jbol...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Personally, I'd be inclined to just wait for good reading material
> to blow my way. *And I'd try to not roll over on my reading glasses[*].
>
> I guess the gutter is as good a venue as any for
> listening to HS.
>
> I listen to George Norrie in the bathroom.
>
> cheers,
> * * * * Tom
>
> --
> "It's not fair! *It's not fair!"
> * * * * -- Burgess Meredith, in one of my fave Twighlight Zone episodes- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
>
>
HS's current Sirius/On Demand 5-year contract is for $100M yearly.

*Someone* must be listening to him. (Those New Yorkers are such saps.
They will buy any damn thing.)

J.

Zoot Katz

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:38:09 -0700, tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom
Keats) wrote, part:

>In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
>(June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
>to enforce our local MHL.)

Bike Summer is now a movable DIY feast.
http://www.bikesummer.org/2008/main.htm

Vancouver hosted it in June 2001 to correspond with our annual
BikeMonth. Others have been hosted in San Francisco and New York.
>
>But I kinda like the idea of Chicago's BikeWinter.
>I respect that Chicagoans have the balls to even
>have a BikeWinter.

The ZooBombers in Portland host Mini-bike Winter. Basically a
drunken and bruised weekend of poetry and craziness on 16" wheels.
Portland's winters are way different than Chicago's.
--
zk

Jeremy Parker

"Jay" <jbollyn@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:XuWdnaPDSdSRO47VnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> "Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
> newsan.2008.04.26.02.04.41.539182@letterboxes.org...
>> The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is
>> doing for
>> Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or
>> local
>> government have planned? Announce your event and share your ideas
>> in our
>> comments section:
>>
>> http://www.vabike.org/what-are-you-...ike-month-2008/
>>
>> Matt O.
>>
>>
> I plan to be drunk, face down in a gutter all month.
>
> Next month, I plan to wake up. God willing.

It's bad enough when motorists park in the bike lane, thereby
traumatising all the novices who can't figure out how to pass the
car. But when cyclists do it too ...

Jeremy Parker

Tom Keats

In article <d1q714566jnsf61vlf1u5enars6c4gbgh5@4ax.com>,
Zoot Katz <zootkatz@operamail.com> writes:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:38:09 -0700, tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom
> Keats) wrote, part:
>
>>In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
>>(June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
>>to enforce our local MHL.)
>
> Bike Summer is now a movable DIY feast.
> http://www.bikesummer.org/2008/main.htm
>
> Vancouver hosted it in June 2001 to correspond with our annual
> BikeMonth. Others have been hosted in San Francisco and New York.

Of course <me, smacking myself on forehead>.
I helped distribute posters for it.
As I recall, the events included a well-attended
bike bazaar at Stanley Park.

I believe the VACC does pancake breakfasts for
bike commuters during Bike Month.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Zoot Katz

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:49:52 -0700, tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom
Keats) wrote:

>In article <d1q714566jnsf61vlf1u5enars6c4gbgh5@4ax.com>,
> Zoot Katz <zootkatz@operamail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:38:09 -0700, tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom
>> Keats) wrote, part:
>>
>>>In Vancouver we have BikeSummer as well as BikeMonth
>>>(June, which is also when the cops are more inclined
>>>to enforce our local MHL.)
>>
>> Bike Summer is now a movable DIY feast.
>> http://www.bikesummer.org/2008/main.htm
>>
>> Vancouver hosted it in June 2001 to correspond with our annual
>> BikeMonth. Others have been hosted in San Francisco and New York.
>
>Of course <me, smacking myself on forehead>.
>I helped distribute posters for it.
>As I recall, the events included a well-attended
>bike bazaar at Stanley Park.
>
>I believe the VACC does pancake breakfasts for
>bike commuters during Bike Month.
>
I don't think Alistair is doing BikeFest this year. Last year it got
moved from its usual location and then rained on. The bikefest site
gone and it's not listed in Momentum's calendar.

The Car Free day will be spread around six neighbourhoods.
--
zk

Tom Keats

In article <5ot9149t96h0utnt8v3fvi3ri3pojabrg3@4ax.com>,
Zoot Katz <zootkatz@operamail.com> writes:

>>I believe the VACC does pancake breakfasts for
>>bike commuters during Bike Month.
>>
> I don't think Alistair is doing BikeFest this year. Last year it got
> moved from its usual location and then rained on. The bikefest site
> gone and it's not listed in Momentum's calendar.
>
> The Car Free day will be spread around six neighbourhoods.

What this town needs is a /real/ Car Free Day, like
Bogota. Or even better -- street party all along E 1st Ave,
c/w stilt-walkers, jugglers, marching brass bands, smoothies
(mescaline-laced optional,) costumes, displayed artwork,
pedal-powered floats, dominoes tournaments, ice cream cones,
oxygen and everything non-Car. No clowns, though. They'd
just freak-out the mescaline-laced smoothie folks. I kinda
like those balloon thingies that look like tube people, where
blasts of air inflates 'em and makes their tube arms wave
around. They're a nice prop for events.

cheers,
Tom

--
"Going Up the 'Pool"
-- Jethro Tull
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Jay

"Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
newsan.2008.04.26.02.04.41.539182@letterboxes.org...
> The Virginia Bicycling Federation wants to know what everyone is doing for
> Bike Month. What does your bike club, organization, company, or local
> government have planned?
>
>
I plan to buy rounds (shots) for the house in my very favorite Irish bar
until we all pass out in the gutter, face down, and eventually get carted
off to the local crack house, where I will buy rounds for the house...

J.

Jay

"Matt O'Toole" <mattotoole@letterboxes.org> wrote in message
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> The Virginia...
>
>
Virginia? Where da h*** is dat? Plis gimmi a goddam klu. Somewhare on da
east coast? Help me out here.

Clueless J.