Too Cold

Kid's bike give-away scene.

So, yeah..... I haven't been riding much of late, but sub-zero temperatures will do that to me. My birthday on Friday was frigid, with double-digit below zero temperatures all morning long and we did not get above zero until Sunday. 

Monday we reached the teens above zero, so I rode to work. Yee-haw! At least I am back on the bike again outdoors. It seems this Winter has decided it will act like a "real Winter" after not getting its act together for the first two weeks of January where it was quite warm. 

In the meantime I have been a bit stir crazy being cooped up indoors. I have contemplated some bicycle changes, but for the sake of just changing things. This is not good enough. I do not want to get involved in setting up a bike in a new way because I am bored. (Besides upgrading my fixed gear situation)

I did get to be involved in a kid's bike give away via a local non-profit foundation whose main mission is to help disadvantaged families with children. The foundation vetted out the kids and we just had to match them up with bicycles. That was a lot of fun to do. We ended the day giving away 16 youth bikes. 

This may not sound like much, but the hope is to see even just a few of these kids get jazzed by cycling and hopefully they will make it a long-term kind of deal. There were a lot of "thank you's" and good vibes all around. 

So, it hasn't all been a downer.