🏷️ bikes

I am so out of biking shape ;(. Bike butt has been obliterated and replaced with one of a programmer. Now that the roads are ice free I'm back on it and I am in love all over again.





I don't care if it's still cold I'm trying to ride every day now. No way am I going to be slow on a bike this summer.

Our first bike ride of year was the Buffalo bike party. We went with @KeithT - it started at Colonial. went down to Founding Father's, MLK Park, and then a fried food party.

We broke away for a while to stop at Mohawk place for infringement. We ended up seeing @czarkasm there.

The ride was short and not too amazing but we met a few cool new people (besides the ride leader who litters cigarette packets). I can't wait for warmer days where people aren't waiting to go inside and the rides go on forever.

Fried oreos are delicious and gross as hell.






@paul and I got to desecrate the expressway.

The city's comprehensive's bike plan meeting was last week. I was suprised, but glad with the turn out - it was a full house at the DIG space in the innovation center.

At first, the consultant outlined their methodology for coming up with the inital outline for Buffalo's bike future from the first meeting. They said they kept in their design in line with the best practice of bike infrastructure within 0.5miles of every Buffalonian. From there, they divided up bike infrastructure to classes on different locations, from serious riders on Delaware, to riders who only would ride on separated paths with no car traffic.

After this, the 100 or so people broke out into groups of 10 to come up with 3 priorities and critiques of the consultants plan. One thing a lot of people noticed is a focus on high traffic roads, especially in North Buffalo, when there are huge lane and a half lanes like Starin that could support protected bike lanes.

We also noticed the consultants neglected the east side - Bailey and many far east N-S routes were almost completely ignored, while the near and far west side were soaked in proposed bike routes. East-west routes were also named as a high priority - I can't think of a single good bike route that crossed Main right now. I will say, of the participants there, most were from the west side below Hertel.

The entirety of the plan is available at buffalobikeplan.org. There will be more plans in the spring - but in the mean time they are still welcoming feedback. Give it.

Bike highways are probably the only types of highways I can get behind. I was reading about a 100 km bike highway in Germany that's going to be built. The path is going to have priority at every crossing it meets, or a separated right of way if it's possible. It sounds amazing, I want to ride on it.

It also made me think of the Erie Canal trail that I've never taken before, from Buffalo to Glen Falls. @YesThatCasey, when are we going to ride this?


Also there is a city bike planning meeting down at GoBike's offices in the innovation center today at 6pm! So ride your ass down and get involved.

@YesThatCasey, @paul, @steve and I took advantage of the warm day to ride around the cemetery. There was a lot of picture taking and meta-picture taken of that picture taking.

Afterwards we rode up through the park, through North Buffalo to walk Midnight. I don't think he expected to see four people there for him.

On Wednesday, @terry and I made it out to Go Bike's Biketober fest at the new Flying Bison brewery in Larkinville. We met up with the usual bike people - I also got to talk to two of the bike and ped engineers for the city. Apparently they had heard about my winter biking and were really interested in hiring me.

Outside, the new Buffalo beer bike was out giving rides. It's a lot like the ones in Portland and Germany - a driver serves drinks to ten or so people who pedal and ride the bike. The max speed is only 5 mph but it's so freaking awesome. Sadly they were done giving rides by the time we saw it.

Tuesday was a super nice day and probably the last one for a while. So @paul, @terry and I cut out of work to fit in a bike ride. Fall color mode was full on.

Last night @terry and I went on the Buffalo bike party. It was super cold but Henry brought hot cider.

We started off at Colonial Circle and went downtown to Lafayette Square. It looks way good since they stopped having the square there.

After that the ride picked up again and headed up to Resurgence. It really smelled like the Black Rock Canal was farting outside, but no one seemed to notice on the patio. The space itself was really cool though and the beer was good. $6.50 a pop though. The ride kept going to Rohall's but Lloyd's was calling us.






Excited Terry!

Take it easy. @paul and I rode to walk my dog, and then out to Williamsvile to get his MRI CD. He likes to go slow, I like to beat the traffic. We didn't average 20mph, lol.

Despite the fact we drove out in rush hour on Main Street in Williamsville, riding back on Kensington was way more stressful. The drivers coming in were way crazier, and honked and swerved a lot. We also made it through the nussbaumer designed clusterfuck at Kensington and Werhle. Good thing the road is wide enough for us to not get crushed. I hate cars.

Saturday I made @paul and @terry go on a bike ride. It was a perfect day for it. The only bad part was somehow I got a blister on my eye (bug maybe?).




Foto machen!

Someone ripped the flyers off this piece of wood to look like the great lakes

The little industry that's left - wonder what they're unloading

Times beach - I really hope there was an actual water bowl here at some point and they don't want the dogs to drink the gutter watter

Off of Wilkenson Point



Spinny sculptures



Sunsets on the lake - it keeps going down earlier :(

Climbing the boat hatch

@terry joined me



Baby deer on the way home