Juju Compendium: Mission Bikes, Couch Bike, Bye Bye Twitter

by Tom on July 14, 2009 · 2 comments

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If you happen to be near Waterloo, Ontario, why not rent the couch bike for your next trip to the grocery store? (Or if you need to get there faster, try a rowingbike)

Or maybe you’re a Mormon headed out on your mission and wondering where you might get a bike? Well Pedal With a Purpose is there to serve you, as is CTR Bikes, which has conveniently divided their online store into bikes for Elders and Sisters.

The New York Times online created a multimedia feature on fixie “peel sessions” in Brooklyn.

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Blogs I’ve been enjoying: B is for Bicycle, Kent’s Bike Blog, and Tacoma Bike Ranch, which is raffling a stylish hand made Fat Tire hat.

I’ve been volunteering at The Bikery. Seattleites: join their mailing list! Go to a class!

I think I’m giving up on Twitter. The hell with Twitter. If you follow me on Twitter (@bikejuju) you can probably watch me say goodbye some time this week. Useless time-suck, that Twitter. I’d rather read blogs and leave comments and engage in real dialogue (and be out riding!). Your comments and thoughts on this are most heartily welcome.

Rule number 8 of the Tour de Fat. Words to live by.
8. Keep the day true with thy good juju.

And finally, RIP bicycle activist and longtime safety advocate Bruce Rosar, killed in a collision with an oncoming vehicle in North Carolina. Our thoughts are with your family, and everyone involved.

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bikedate July 16, 2009 at 2:12 pm: i find i read twitter posts (ok… ‘tweets’…) from people that i don’t know – political writers, bike writers, stuff like that. that’s pretty entertaining. i post (ok… ‘tweet’…) from time to time, but without much enthusiasm… i only blog from time to time too, but at least i do it with enthusiasm!

so yeah, adios twitter – i can understand that…

and man i sick of reading stories about people getting killed riding their bikes. (not taking it out on the messenger tho) there needs to be a sea change in appreciating the benefits that bikes have on a community and then finding ways to keep us safe. RIP indeed.
Tom July 16, 2009 at 11:04 pm: I think acknowledging and publicizing each death I hear about keeps me a little more alert out there, and honors the rider. But one accident I did not blog about, though I Tweeted it, was from my neighborhood yesterday, with this classic quote. My Tweet:

Cyclist doored, injured, another driver “starts yelling about “some f-ing a-hole on a bike” who just scratched her car.” http://bit.ly/y72Tp

(Awesome flame war going on in that comment stream now…)

Oh, and I’m re-thinking the quitting Twitter thing. I think I just need to give up on it as a potential “conversation,” and reframe how I use it and think of it.