If you're a large woman in America, your whole life us an opportunity to feel self-conscious,embarrassed, resentful and way too big. you can hide in the corner or in the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

9/15/2004

2 Portland biking notes


  1. Portland has these cool bicycle traffic light changing thingees. Essentially, you line up the bike on the line (with the little bike image on it), and it's like pressing the walk button -- you get the signal. There's a special bike traffic light coming off the east side of the Steele Bridge that is activated when a bike lines up on it. This morning, I got the left hand signal -- on Broadway! -- immediately.

  2. In honor of Bike Commute Challenge month (or maybe it's just a coincidence), Portland Police do enforce the "no bicycling on sidewalks downtown" law. The ticket is $300+.


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2 Comments:

Blogger Mark said...

Hi VJ! I found your blog and have added it to our listing of running bloggers which we call the Running Blog Family or RBF. Hope that is ok. The address is:

http://www.completerunning.com/running/blogs.htm

Hope to see you around...

8:27 AM

 
Blogger vj said...

Mark --
thank you! Yes, that is definitely okay! I'm honored, and I can't wait to check some of these out. Thanks again -- vj

10:28 AM

 

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