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2021-08-02T06:14:48.000Z
Jason Plumb
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Covid summer of eternal biking
https://noisybox.net/blog/2021/08/covid_summer_of_eternal_biking
2021-08-02T06:14:48.000Z
<p>Wow this long summer of 3 months of <a href="https://www.pedalpalooza.org/">Pedalpalooza</a>
has really been fun and intense. I'm definitely more engaged and riding more,
or at least it feels like it...but maybe it's just that things are spaced out more?</p>
<p><a href='https://noisybox.net/blog/images/20210801-2021_goth_ride.jpg'><img alt='20210801-2021_goth_ride_1024.jpg' src='https://noisybox.net/blog/images/20210801-2021_goth_ride_1024.jpg'/></a></p>
<p>On a <a href="https://www.strava.com/activities/5724483798">ride today</a>, as is common
when meeting new friends on rides with strangers, talk turned to past pedalpalooza
rides. I didn't realize until later that I have actually done quite a few this
season, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13541">Flanders ride</a> - bunch of Ned Flanders cosplayers riding over the new bike overpass bridge on....FLANDERS street. Props to the project!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13742">Rocky Butte</a> - climb to Rocky Butte at sunset. Lots of people, friends and new friends, lots of fun.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13708">Monster Ride</a> - Lots of
furry beasts and strange creatures. I took my demon son Jeffrey along for the trip.
He frightened a few folks, and was welcomed by good company.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13400">Goth Ride</a> - (the above pic, in the cemetery, before the start) - Music. Eyeliner. Darkness. <3</li>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13777">Music for Airports</a> - A bunch
of awkward music geeks with unsynchronized versions of the seminal album playing
on repeat while we circle the airport on bikes and try not to die.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13911">PBP not a Brevet</a> - That was today. A longer and smaller ride, but really
fun and challenging. I locked up my front wheel when the (metal) fender folded
on the single-track descent on Rocky Butte, but
somehow didn't puncture and didn't crash and managed to hand-bend the shit
back enough to keep riding. Not boring at all! What a forearm workout on these Paul
canti brakes. :) Never riding a trail again on purpose with these fucking fenders, that's
for sure...</li>
</ul>
<p>I suppose I've done a ton of other riding as well, like to friends birthday
parties and to play disc golf once and to test some personal limits/things...
but yeah, pedalpalooza has been super fun this year! I wonder (and secretly hope)
that the multi-month format will maintain past covid...</p>
<p>Most of a month remains. Looking forward to even more rides!</p>