Seeing as how I live on a small lot, I don’t really need to build one of these.
However, it seems to me that I know someone with a large lawn and some extra bicycles lying around…
Bicycle Lawnmowing
May 16th, 2013 by mattSpace Center Coffee Mug
May 15th, 2013 by Pitt
Irony
May 13th, 2013 by mattI love the headline of this article:
“UB grads urged to ‘find a better way’ to connect with communities they serve ”
Naturally, the University at Buffalo graduates who were being told this were listening to the speech in Amherst, because the actual University turned its back on Buffalo and moved out to the ‘burbs years ago. Nice.
Light Show
May 9th, 2013 by mattAfter years of calls to demolish them, the grain elevators of the Buffalo waterfront as being repurposed — as screens for a giant light show.
This should be interesting. I look forward to taking the kids down to Canalside when this starts up.
Shirt Designs 2013
May 3rd, 2013 by mattHere are the submissions that I received for this year’s SAPS shirt design. Each one is tagged with a name, which corresponds to an entry in the voting booth. To vote for your favorite, go to the end of this post and make your selection. Please don’t just post your vote as a comment, because then I don’t know whether or not you also used the voting booth. Please note that each of the images in this post is a thumbnail; if you’d like to see more detail, where available, just click on the picture and a larger version will load.
Whichever design has the most votes by midnight on May 19 will be the winner, and will go on the t-shirts that Super Atomic Pedal Squadron wears in this year’s ride.
So, without further ado, here’s our contestants:
Cancer Punch
Diamonds
Orange Slant
Purple Circle
Purple Gear
SAPS D
SAPSzilla
Please, pass the URL for this far and wide – email, Facebook, etc. Not only is it good publicity for the team, and a good chance for fundraising, but I’d like to get a lot of input and a lot of votes. And I’m sure that some of you are dying for a chance to stuff the ballot box.
Which design should SAPS wear for Ride for Roswell 2013?
- Purple Gear (49%, 71 Votes)
- SAPSzilla (40%, 59 Votes)
- Cancer Punch (5%, 8 Votes)
- SAPS D (2%, 3 Votes)
- Diamonds (1%, 2 Votes)
- Purple Circle (1%, 2 Votes)
- Orange Slant (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 146
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May 2nd, 2013 by mattIt looks like the “big guys break spokes” rule has made it to the NYC bike share program — riders over 260 pounds are barred in the contract from riding the bikes.
Heredity
April 29th, 2013 by mattThe son of former Governor and onetime Presidential candidate Cuomo has stated he will not challenge the wife of former President Clinton if she runs for the Democratic candidacy for President in 2016.
Thank heavens we’re not one of those backward countries ruled by a bunch of inbred aristocrats, huh?
Haulin’ Colin
April 17th, 2013 by mattI got this link from a discussion on another web site — this guy makes custom trailers for hauling large loads with a bicycle, along with other neat bikey stuff.
Linwood Lanes
April 15th, 2013 by mattI went out for a short ride yesterday afternoon — took the river path into downtown, then looped around to Franklin Street and north to Linwood.
They re-striped Linwood last fall, and this was my first time seeing it. It used to be a one-way street with two lanes of automobile traffic, heading north from North Street to Delavan. Now, it’s still one-way automobile traffic, but they cut that down to one lane and added bike lanes in both directions. Essentially, it’s a north-south bicycle “highway” from North Buffalo into downtown. Pretty cool.
Shirt Design Contest 2013
April 12th, 2013 by mattIt’s that time again — time to get out your Sharpies, your generic Chinese drawing tablets, and your pirated copy of Photoshop Elements to put together a shirt design for this year’s ride.
Same rules as last year.
- Must include either “Super Atomic Pedal Squadron!” or “SAPS!” lettering somewhere in the design. Can’t have a team shirt without a team name.
- Can be no more than three colors, not including the background. These are going on shirts, and stuff that’s really colorful is also really expensive. The background color is “free” because it’s just the color of the shirt coming through.
- All entries must be received by May 1. Then I’ll post everything I’ve received and we’ll use the voting booth to pick a winner.
Please send submissions in PNG, SVG, or some other common format. They can be emailed to me at “contact@roadflares.org”. No warranties expressed or implied. Not valid in all fifty states. All right reserved, all wrongs reversed. And so on.