Ride Boldly!

Fall is the right time to prepare for winter cycle-commuting. The right equipment and preparation makes it possible.

There’s a Google Maps hack designed specifically for routing bike rides and sharing the maps called Map My Ride. I fiddled with it for a short version of Great Googly Moogly (a 21-mile version I run late-season), and it’s pretty interesting. It allows for pretty easy routing and allows the addition of waypoint notes.
There’s a [...]

Beware: Tonight is the first Great Googly Moogly of the season.

I, myself, am looking forward to a DQ cone with sprinkles if the wind dies off a bit…
(note: to get to the Gateway Trail after the first turn on Randolph, one needs to go LEFT on Arlington. Doh.)

I will be running a 2008 version of the Bop Til You Drop ride on May 28 with TCBC. Last year’s map is available, but be aware that I’m making changes based on updated construction conditions.
28 MON 10:00 AM AB/B 62/79/89+ mi. BOP TIL YOU DROP. Depart from University of St. Thomas main lot, corner [...]

The Department of Transportation has posted the Gateway Trail detour map for this year’s Highway 36 construction.
This looks like a solid detour set where motorists may be more apt to use different routing than the marked bike/ped detours. The pedestrians are taking a different detour as well, although how much that occurs is going to [...]

The Star-Tribune reports that, to save time and money, MN-DOT will be closing a section of Highway 36 entirely through North Saint Paul for reconstruction. Construction is to begin in May. (See: Splitting North St. Paul in the Sunday, April 1 edition; I’m quite sure this isn’t a weird April Fool’s prank.)
The paper — and [...]