Hump day links
Nov 7
2007
2007
- » The photography of Pieter Ombregt will be displayed at the City Gallery of Photography, 806 N. Michigan Avenue, starting next Thursday, Nov. 15. A reception from 5-7 p.m. opens the exhibit. (Ombregt is the XXX Racing-AthletiCo cyclist who died racing in Matteson this summer.)
» Remember Susan Peithman (ABD)? She left us this summer for rainier pastures, but this she week made a prominent appearance in the New York Times: “In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels.”
» I’m aware of at three new amateur teams for 2008, plus one title sponsor change. Most are still under wraps, but one, Spider Monkey Cycling, has rolled out its Web site.
» What we’re up against: ”Bicyclists should just ride on the sidewalks.” (The author is apparently a high school student, which invites a rhetorical question: Who’s the greater menace to public safety? Cyclists gliding through stop signs, or teen drivers?)
Nov 8
2007
7:05 am
Luke,
Another team to keep an eye out for in 2008 will be Beverly Bike-Vee Pak. A Southside squad with 12 members in 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and masters.