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Bent: Biking To Work & Lovin’ It

Posted by DFO

May 5, 2009 6:06 a.m. • 11 comments

Bent: Went bicycle riding with my wife. We just got new bikes, what a blast. I almost forgot how much fun it is to ride a bike. I’ve been taking my bike to work and riding at lunch, and twice last week I put it on the bus, took the bus to Liberty lake and rode my bike home to Post Falls. … If the weather holds I am going to do it again today. … Next week is Bike to Work Spokane, and we have a corporate team so I’ll try riding both ways that week.

Question: When did you last ride a bike?

11 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

redman on May 05 at 8:04 a.m.
last summer but Bent really has me thinking about riding a whole lot more.
JeanieSpokane on May 05 at 8:49 a.m.
I’m impressed, Bent! Do you take the Centennial Trail? So, next week you will ride the entire route from Post Falls to Spokane?

I’d like to do this - from Millwood - but I’d be such a stinky, sweaty mess by the time I got here. I dunno.
toadman on May 05 at 9:05 a.m.
I rode my bike last night (it needs repair, though, anyone knoe a good shop in town?). I have one of those kid carriers on the back of it, and our two year old absolutely LOVES riding with me…especially now that Spokannibus has torn up Alberta (one of our nearby arterial streets), and we can ride down there and look at all the giant machinery after all the workers have gone. He goes google-eyed over that stuff.

As for riding to work, it’s too far, realistically, for me to ride, so I drive down to the Jefferson Lot in downtown Spoklaloonie, about a five minute drive for me, and catch the bus to my destination. I’ve been doing that for over a year now, and I have to tell you, the money we’ve saved is making a difference. We just paid off our last gas company credit card (Chevron) with the money we’ve saved, and it felt good.
spokelooneh on May 05 at 9:38 a.m.
Talk to these guys, toadman, re bike fixes:

http://pedals2people.org/index.aspx
moscow_minidoka on May 05 at 10:02 a.m.
Question: When did you last ride a bike?

Yesterday. I bicycle or walk to work (2 miles each way) everyday. I walked to work today because it was raining so hard and my commuter bike doesn’t have any fenders.
Bent on May 05 at 10:12 a.m.
Hey Toad, I used Two Wheel Transit and they are fantastic. A complete tune up: spokes, hubs, gears, brakes and anything else that needs a tweak or two all for $70. Their web site is here:

http://www.twowheeltransit.com/

And Yes, Jeannie I am going to give it a try. (We have a locker room and shower). Right now, a one-way trip from Liberty Lake Park n’ Ride to my house is just about 12 miles. I can get 24 miles by riding both ways and the goal is to ride the entire way in within the next month or so. That would be about 50 miles round trip a day.

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