Consider this a five day warning

You absolutely HAVE to go check out the Nice Ride MN website and sign yourself up for a membership. As I've mentioned before, it's only $40 through May 31 and it's pretty easy for this thing to pay for itself with the money it saves:

Want to bike to work but don't want your bike to get stolen? Find a Nice Ride station near you and save yourself the $40+ you would have dropped on a Kryptonite lock.

Live in the suburbs and don't have a station close to you? Park for free on the fringes of downtown near a NR station, and ride on in to the office. In a week it will have paid for itself.

Even if you don't do either of those, a membership still comes with a TON of good coupons for bike shops and restaurants so you can probably get your $40 back through purchases at these locales. Not to mention that a membership comes with two complimentary 24 hour subscriptions for a friend ($10 value).

Seriously, this is a great deal, so go get yourself signed up PRONTO!

Wednesday's Commute - Early 90s Flashback Edition

Today's round trip to the office provided both morning and afternoon stimuli which sent me immediately back to the days of hyper-color t-shirts:

AM - Ace of Base lyrics splashed across a supporting pillar of my favorite underpass

PM - A pack of rollerbladers gliding down the Hiawatha trail

I logged more hours both rollerblading and listening to Ace of Base in the 90s, but I'm not certain what compels someone to risk criminal charges by announcing "All that she wants is another baby" in the public arena.

Anybody remember what you were doing in the early 90s?

Toward another disequilibrium?

In a perfect world, my commuting miles would match my work hours:

4 miles to the office + 4 miles from the office = 8 miles/day

8 miles/day x 5 days = 40 = 40 hour work week

I have spent the past few months working a lot more than 40 hours, and riding a lot fewer than 40 miles each week. Hopefully that starts to flip very soon since busy season is over, and the weather is making for more ideal riding conditions. I don't think I'll be having much of a problem getting closer to a 1:1 ratio as long as the weather cooperates, and hopefully I"m closer to 2:1 or 3:1.

I did keep the "consecutive months with at least one bike commute" streak going by riding to the office on a Saturday, plus to the client site last Monday the 25th.

In other news, the NiceRideMN bikeshare is operational again, and I've already logged a few rides. Through May you can score an annual membership at a reduced price ($40) and they also throw in two vouchers for 24 hour passes you can use to let a friend tag along. Get yours here!