Cycling Social

I hopped onto Blue Thunder and mashed my way downtown toward Krankie’s at a little before five and ended up at the very trendy coffee shop sweaty, but not winded and then ordered a cold fruity drink, which cost way too much if you ask me, but then again I could have been a dick and not tipped the barista.

Being my awkward self, I sat next to the table of cyclist pretending to read Yes Weekly for a few minutes until I knew for sure that they were the right people. I’m guessing the table full of flyers and bond referendum stuff for cycling and pedestrian improvements to the city should have been a dead giveaway. What can I say? I’m slow.

After finally introducing myself, I had a good conversation with most all of the people that were there. All seven to eight of them.

I had mixed feelings going into this whole thing. I was pretty sure I was going to accidently wander into a whole racer themed bike community party or something, but it turned out just to be normal pedal mashing commuters like myself, which was a real nice change of pace.

Matt one of the people there that does bicycle advocacy for the city even told me about the Winston-Salem community ride, which happens every Sunday at 3:00 p.m. starting at Café Prada and does a slow ten mile ride around different parts of the city. No one is dropped and everyone is supposed to have a good time.

I’m changing my schedule around as we speak so that I can make the next ride.

It was nice for a change knowing that there were some other people out there like myself and my wife that just liked to cruise around town and just basically do stuff by bike.

One thing that I did learn was that I really need to get up to date on the city council meetings on all of this stuff and really try and figure out who is who and what is what. Apparently, there is this Dan person that everyone kept talking about.

I’ll have to look into that.

Anyway, a great experience overall.