A quick weekly compendium before we get to the main event (today’s entry written while sporting the stylish Fat Tire beer can hat I won from Tacoma Bike Ranch!):
- These knickers are on sale at REI, and the dude modeling them has some wasting disease afflicting his calves. Or maybe he is a double amputee walking on flesh-colored stilts? I dunno, but it’s freaking me out.
You probably saw this Sunday New York Times article exploring the evidence that drivers on cell phones are homicidally distracted, but in case you didn’t, it’s worth reading. And terrifying (though not quite as terrifying as whoever is shooting blowgun darts at Seattle cyclists).- A Minneapolis lawyer was arrested for indecent exposure while cycling “wearing a skirt-like garment or a pair of shorts with the crotch area removed.” His excuse? He “told officers that he was training for a naked bicycle race.”
- Bikerowave LA found a space! (Here!)
- In other news, there is some kind of cycle event happening in France.
Action Wipes Giveaway Raffle
Now to the main event. It’s been unseasonably warm in Seattle this summer (the locals refer to it as “hot,” apparently not knowing that term is reserved for temperatures above 90 degrees). My daily commute takes me from the High Point neighborhood (literally the highest point in Seattle) to my office on First Hill, so it finishes with a hill no matter which way I am headed. Mornings I inevitably leave the house late and do my best to keep up with carbon fiber roadies on East Marginal Way, and then if I’m feeling masochistic, I make like a messenger up Yesler. Leaving me a sweaty mess when I arrive in my building, where there are no showers or bicycle facilities, other than a sad, overcrowded rack in the parking garage.
Not to sound like an infomercial, but I recently discovered Action Wipes (“natural, full body wet wipes for when you can’t shower”). Action Wipes aren’t quite a substitute for a shower, but they do make the transition from sweaty to meeting-ready much more pleasant, and the outcome less… fragrant (I think my office mate is probably a bigger fan than I am!). They have a mild-but-tingly, tea tree/eucalyptus scent.
Martha at Action Wipes was kind enough to add a freebie to my recent order, sending me a 5-pack to give away on the blog, so here we go. The raffle is open until midnight next Friday, July 31, at which time one lucky random winner will be mailed a packet of 5 Action Wipes. In order to enter, please do one of these two things between now and July 31 (midnight Seattle time):
- Link to any page on Bikejuju.com from your blog or website (Twitter does not count) and email me the URL of the page with the link,
- Subscribe to receive Bikejuju posts by email, or
- Post a comment anywhere on Bikejuju.com (enter a working email, it will not be shown in the comment)
One entry per email address, winner drawn at random on August 1st. Good luck, sweaty cyclists
PS #1: Bikedate was kind enough to write about this post and link to it, saying that he was introduced to Action Wipes by this post on (the awesomely redesigned) Bike Skirt blog. It’s a circle of blog Action Wipes love!
PS#2: In the last 24 hours over 100 of you have seen this post, yet there is a paucity of comments. So I’m guessing either you’re shy, you’re not interested in receiving free stuff, you lack sweat glands (and thus don’t need Action Wipes), or you came here in search of naked cyclists and everything else bores you…
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I work at a pediatric clinic, so we’re rolling in wipes, but tingly tea trea/eucalyptus action does sound nice. Mmmm … tea tree oil, it’s estrogenic! Prepubertal boys beware:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2007/niehs-31.htm
Oh, to be biking and sweating again! Alas I’ve been curbed by spousal anxieties over the safety of urban biking. How about a few posts on how safe biking is compared to other forms of transit?
There’s a great chapter on that in Pedaling Revolution, which I just read. Review coming, stay tuned. Statistics are mixed, depending on whether you measure per mile (biking is more dangerous) or per hour (possibly safer than driving, but stats are hard to come by). Did you know in America you have a one-in-sixty chance of dying in a car accident in any case?
I just used some at my daughter’s girl’s camp. They work great! Big fan of them. Would love some more.
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