TGIF, all!

Here’s a simple list of blogs who have linked to Cyclelicious over the past 10 days or so. If you linked and I missed you please feel free to comment and I’ll add the link.

FABB = Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling.

Biking in LA.

General Carlessness in Chicago.

Crit Ninja in Calgary.

Twin River Cyclists.

Bicycle Design.

My Bicycle Musings.

James Thomas: Get Outdoors Blog.

Paul Andrews: Bike Intelligencer.

Germany: Rad Spannerei.

Portugal: Cenas a pedal (English page).

Half Full.

Random Thoughts from Random Places.

Besides a two year hiatus when my son was born, I’ve been riding my bike to work almost every day since 1987. It doesn’t change with rain, shine, hail, snow, thunderstorm, a plague of frogs, zombie apocalypse or the expiration of a Mesoamerican calendar system: I ride my bike.

Yet when I roll in on a day like today, when rain is forecast, people at the office still ask me, “What are you gonna do when it rains?”

How do you answer that question?

You lay down on this Argentine-designed Cheetah trike and make humping motions to make it go.

More at Treehugger. Video of Pablo Lopez’s “Pardo” device in action might be fun to watch.

Former firefighter Charles Alexander Diez pled guilty yesterday to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and was sentenced to 120 days in jail, according to news reports.

While Alan Ray Simons pulled his son in a child trailer behind a bike, Diez yelled at Simons telling him he put the boy’s life in danger before shooting at Simons’ head. The bullet passed through Simons’ helmet but missed his head by a hair.

Diez testified that, “I was the one who felt truly, truly threatened” by the vicious cyclist out in the open as Diez sat inside of his car and pulled out his gun.

I haven’t heard if Simons got a new bike helmet to replace his damaged one.

Read more.

The San Francisco Bike Expo is tomorrow (Saturday, November 21) all day at the Cow Palace in Daly City. I’ll be there taking photos and drinking coffee and meeting you. If you see me please feel free to say hello.

Also on Saturday: iMinusD Fixed Gear Boutique grand opening at noon. They’re downtown San Jose on Paseo San Antonio.

Tonight: San Jose Bike Party “Where’s Waldo” theme ride, rain or … well, not “shine,” since it starts at 8:30 PM. Let’s call it “rain or dry.” There’s a pre-party at Hellyer Velodrome, a food donation drive (bring canned goods for Second Harvest), and other fun stuff. I’m staying later than usual in San Jose Friday night, but the ride goes way out to southeast San Jose so I’m not sure I can make it. I’ll play it by ear.

Just in case you haven’t checked the forecast, it’s supposed to rain pretty much all day in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday. You won’t melt when you bike in the rain, but it helps to have fenders and wear rain gear. We’re also supposed to have gusty winds out of the south, which means headwinds for my evening riding.