this morning on my ride to work, i was on the bike path when some dude heading in my direction hit a low pole and went over his bars. no helmet, just a backwards baseball cap to cushion any potential head trauma. lucky for him that it was just his arm, hands and knees that made contact with the asphalt.

i rode up to him and stopped to ask if he was ok. yeah, yeah, i’m fine. you sure? yeah. which is when a cute girl cyclist rolled up to see if he was ok and he turned his attention to her, completely ignoring me. he also found some mystery owies to show her. i felt slightly dissed but then realized that i had zero interest in standing there making myself late for a meeting while comforting someone who wasn’t even smart enough to wear a bike helmet. so without further ado, i finished my commute.

i suspect those poles get a lot of people, but i don’t think that they get a lot of people a lot of dates. this coulda been the first.

barack obama rode a cooler bike?

though the last one had a really sweet (though ugly colored) custom serotta, and that didn’t turn out so well for him. or us, for that matter.

not only is it expensive, it’s turning people into shit drivers. i think that since gas has hit $4, i’ve had more close calls than i had in the entire year when gas was sitting in the mid-$3 range. fewer cars, more room to speed? drivers furious around cyclists who are paying nothing to get where they’re going (while occupying the non-oil burning hyper-smug moral highground)?

i dunno, i don’t think there’s a causation argument here, unless you are comfortable making correlation always being equal to causation arguments. i am. because otherwise you gotta do science and fuck that.