Intentions

I took a few days off of work to enjoy my upcoming new bike days. I'm just waiting on Campognolo brakes for my new ride since the Paul Racer Mediums are apparently too long-reaching. Hopefully new bike day will be tomorrow, or at least no later than Saturday. I'm so excited to have a lighter, faster, and sexier bike.

I thought that as a follow-up to my initial posting, this would be a good time to clarify my intentions of this blog.

Obviously, this was started because I want to share my evolving love for bicycling with others, but I also started this because if I ever had an urge to start up my own cycling-centered company, I wanted to already have a foundation. I will post important news here (such as policies, stolen bike listings, injured/killed cyclists, and whatever else I find worthy of my time).

I also want to post my ideas here that will make our streets safer. Of course, cars are an issue and I think that there needs to be more measures taken to create safer automobiles not only for the driver, but for those being affected around it. I feel like there needs to be some sort of sensor installed in a part of the automobile that causes the automobile to freeze (think emergency stop) when it comes too close to a bicycle. Now I know that most of us come extremely close to cars while riding, but I'm thinking that this sensor should only work if the cyclist is within a certain number of inches of the vehicle. It would be selfish and really stupid if the sensor system caused the vehicle to stop while driving everywhere it encountered a bicycle close to it. I know the ideal situation is to get people out of their vehicles and onto bikes, but people aren't transitioning anytime soon.

That's enough for now.