I Vote For Spring

This is riggodamdiculous. March 23rd and its 29 degrees outside. I could swear that the spring was supposed to be warmer than the winter. Maybe I was distracted by Annie Liss the day in Earth Sciences in the 7th grade when we covered seasonal weather changes. Then again, maybe not. Rode the fixie today, and despite the cold, it was a pretty sweet ride. Every day on the fixie is another day that I wonder "why did I wait this long?". I have to send mad, crazy, wicked props to the Fixed Gear Gallery for getting me convinced that I can do this, and for having the on-line Swap Meet where I found the Jeunet. Damn nice folks at the FGG, they do it right, which is the way it should be. They are also from the northern midwest, which seems to be the home to a fair number of two-wheeled revolutionaries. Cars-R-Coffins, One Less Car clothing, the FGG... these people have managed to mate idealism with creativity and humor with enough attitude to make it cool, but not so much as to make it like an elitist club. That is a beautiful thing in cycling. It may be time for us to create some trouble here in the Lou... I know that there are some folks who understand, there are at least four people, besides myself, who ride fixies on campus. Two Langsters, an IRO MarkV and a Surly... There is also some nut-case over in engineering who has an old Schwinn Moab as either a single speed or fixie... still sweet with the disc brakes and bright yellow paint. Way to be dude.