Biking to and from the suburbs (Comments: 3)
Author: Adam
Date: 1 December, 2008
Category: Car-free Living, Road Stories
I went out to Bathtub Billy’s this weekend to meet up with some friends I used to work with. This particular sports bar is out in Greece, a sprawling suburb of Rochester with limited cyclist accommodations. Here’s a map of my ride there:
I have a handy ride-mapping application for my phone that sends this data over the internet. You can see on this map where I tried to cross the river at the RG&E station, but they have it all closed down for construction, so I had to make my way across Driving Park bridge instead.
Also, once I made it out to Greece I had to do what I could to avoid the shoulder-free highways. It was quite an adventure.
On the way back I was on a two-lane road with no shoulder, and some kids in a van decided to “tailgate” me (what would one call that when you have a vehicle that has no tailgate?). It got pretty scary – they were laying on their horn, and I had no idea what they were going to do. A police car passed and did absolutely nothing about it, which was surreal, but the kids seemed to be spooked enough by the cop to stop what they were doing and leave me alone.
I decided, after putting her through such a harrowing experience, that The Chicken Avenger deserved a good wash-down. I disassembled her for the first time since she was “born,” hosed her down with hot water, and put her bags through the wash. Gosh, she’s a beauty when she’s got her bags off:
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