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Good article on commuting on your bike to work via Rails to Trails:

Check out our list of basic preparations to enjoy your bicycle commute, and gear up to join hundreds of thousands all around the country.

1. Functional Bike – If you don’t have a bike, or if it’s been collecting dust in the garage for some time, be sure to visit your local bike shop. Staff there should be helpful in getting you set up for bike commuting on virtually any budget.
2. Helmet – A helmet can save your life…

Fun article on the Sierra Club Blog about energy use in a Cyclist versus a Car.

The ethanol “alternative”? Well, not really. Instead of burning ethanol in engines, from a transportation standpoint were far better off ingesting the stuff. Driving 48 miles takes more than two gallons of ethanol, whereas only eight ounces of liquor, a mere half-pint of vodka, can fuel a cyclist for the same distance. Happy trails

I suggest having a read through the comments, always fun!

Hey Mr. Green: Is Driving Better than Cycling?

Really cool effort to get Google to add bike route finder to Google Maps. Go to this link and sign the petition. This is something Google should already have:
Google Maps ‘Bike There’ Feature Request Petition

Wicked, I will be there for sure:

The bicycle swap meet will showcase new and used bike goods, including fully assembled contraptions as well as individual parts so you can put together your own sweet ride.

Phoenix - Tempe Bike-A-Palooza - Events Search

Got home and had nothing on my mind other than getting on the bike and getting some miles in. Did the sun lakes route again same as Sunday and finished 20 minutes faster. Gorgeous sunset as always and 33 miles in 105 minutes.

Got through 3 mixes from DNB Arena:
Bachelors of Science - very smooth stuff, good warmup
Logan D & Evil B - much harder and Evil B’s lyrics might be considered a bit rude, but its good for dropping the hammer
Mixmaster Doc - at this point my legs were shot so it was good just for rolling on home

Sun Lakes Route

Went for my first ride with the Phoenix Metro Bike Club today and its was well worth the 3 hours of my Saturday morning. The group meets at Kiwanis Park in Tempe, AZ at 7:30am which is at Guadalupe and All American Way. Since that is only 9 miles from my house so I rode over for a warm up. Its about 55F in the morning here now so it was a bit chilly.

Turnout was low according to some but we rolled out with about 30 riders and headed east on Guadalupe going back towards my house. We moved along pretty well ar about 21mph with only a few stoplights breaking things up. It was my first time riding in a pack in over 13 years but it came back to me easily enough.

I felt great up till mile 26 and we started on the four different climbs all around the Papagos. These made me realize that i had a ways to go before I was back into good riding shape. I am now at 106 miles for the season and I was always told that you have to get 500 out of the way before you start up a training program. In 2 weeks I will have the 500+ out of the way and start figuring out some sort of program so that I can power up all of these climbs and then keep going for another 50 miles.

Here is a map of the route.

This is the PRBC website.

get google maps link for kiwanis park