Commuting

I decided today that I'm going to start riding my mountain bike to work. I've been commuting on my road bike and it's getting boring. So tonight I'm taking the lights off the road bike and putting them on the mountain bike.

Another reason I've decided to switch to the mountain bike is that downtown St. Paul is under construction. I have to pedal several blocks out of my way in order to avoid it. If I ride my mountain bike I can ride through the construction zone. They are not actually working when I ride to work so I don't have to avoid the area it's just that dropping 6 inches onto gravel on my road bike is not fun and trying to pop back out on the other side is just not going to happen. With my mountain bike it's not a problem.

I won't be dressed like this when I ride to work but I sure am ready for some hot summer days!

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New bike

OK, so I was in Seattle last month and stumbled upon a bike shop! Well, wait let me back up. I was in Seattle last month and fell in love with the city. There were bikes everywhere! All I could think about was where can I rent a bike??? I googled it and came up with nothing. I went to Happy Hour every night in the hotel we stayed in and chatted up the bartender in hopes of a bike recommendation. He told us that there was a place to rent bikes at Union lake. Kristin and I went for a 12 mile walk to Union Lake and back with no success; we could not find a place to rent a bike.

On our last night in Seattle we are strolling along and stumble upon Davidson bikes. They had the best bikes, road bikes, touring bikes, everything. I talked with the woman working and found out that they custom make their bikes. They are beautiful bikes.

I had already decided that I was going back to Seattle to take a glass blowing class with the Seattle Glass Blowing Studio so now I'm also going to have a custom touring bike built. I've been dreaming about a touring bike, I've been researching touring bikes online and I've been checking out all the local bike shops. The bikes in the Davidson shop were beautiful, I absolutely fell in love with them. Steel frames, custom built to my body and my color design! I get to pick the components and everything! My goal now is to spend the next 6 to 12 months saving money and writing down everything I can think of that I want in a bike. Then I'm heading back to Seattle taking my glass blowing class AND having a bike built! I'm so excited I could pee.