Charles Roberts has asked me, very nicely, to start a YCRE Bicycling club. Which sounds great to me, even though I'm on a college-special Diamondback mountainbike and will be SMOKED by you guys on street bikes.
I digress.
So I would love to start a bike club, but I need your guys help with routes. I'd like to do some sort of tiered setup, like babies, weekend warriors, and crazy dudes. Babies just circle Wash Park or something, Warriors could do the Cherry Creek trail from Colorado Blvd to Confluence Park, and Crazies could do stuff like ride through downtown after a Rockies game (Thanks to Josh for that idea).
Thoughts, my friends?
Showing posts with label bicycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycling. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Coolest Places Around - Urbanistic Tea and Bike
One of the things I really enjoy doing on my weekends is cruising around town and trying new indie coffee shops. After years of Suburban Starbucks, now is my time to live a little.
I have my favorites around- My top three would be, in no particular order:
Kaladi Bros. Coffee on Evans and Gilpin
Cafe Europa on Pennsylvania and Bayaud
Paris on the Platte on Platte St between 15th and the pedestrian bridge over I-25.
Other favorites include Stella's Coffee Haus on Old South Pearl. Decent drinks, kind of nice atmosphere, but tends to be a little crowded. Another runner-up would be the Dazbog Coffee on 17th and Downing (chain, yes. But awesome coffee). I actually did a Summer internship for Lifescape Associates up the street from this place, the Summer BEFORE it went in, so I was forced to drink Starbucks. Common Grounds on 32nd and Lowell and The Tattered Cover Coffee Shop deserve mention as well.
I definitely like riding my homely old Diamondback over to Kaladi or Stella's to get something on Saturday mornings. There are cool bike shop's right by each of them as well, so it's fun to go get some tea and look at the bike's I can't afford.
But at long last someone has come up with the AMAZING idea of combining the two.
I present to you, my humble followers:
Urbanistic Tea and Bike
This place is the combination of 2 of my top 3 loves; Bikes and Tea.
I know.
Take a minute to breath.
This place, while not serving tea, has an incredible selection of teas too choose from. Rare stuff. Exotic stuff.
The thing that I really love is you walk into this tiny place, and you basically have 3 options of where to look- the wall displaying bike parts, the wall displaying teas, or the stand where the owner, Ethan, is working on some bike up on the stand.
That's it.
Seriously, how cool is that?
It's on Lowell just down from the intersection at 32nd (right across Lowell from the Pizza place in Highlands Square).
Go check it out. I'll be doing an interview with Ethan soon (hopefully this weekend) with more pics and more info, but trust me; this place is awesome.
Links!
Urbanistic's Blog
Kaladi Bros. Coffee
Stella's Coffee Haus
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Single Speeds and the Dangers of Felines
I have noticed a strange and wonderful phenomenon here in Denver. It seems there exists a small collective of single speed bicycle riders around Cap Hill, all racing around with their pant legs rolled up and their facial hair a'scragglin'.
Being that I cannot grow facial hair, I feel i do not fit in with the gang. But it got me thinking- is this the new trend? Instead of the Hell's Angels, will our generation have the Hell's Peddlers? Instead of stabbing rowdy people at Dead concerts, will we simply stand silently at emo concerts and blog about it later?
I think yes.
Denver is a pretty good city to bicycle in. It's mostly flat in the central Denver area, only getting terribly hilly the further you get out of town. I guess Cap Hill counts as not being flat, but it's not that bad. You big babies.
Single speed bikes work well here. And most of the city is pretty good about not running you over if you stay to the shoulder far enough. The one exception is the Tech Center. The people there don't seem to like we cyclers. I've only had 3 confrontations though.
Plus, it's a nifty way to see the neighborhoods.
I should mention, however, that upon the 800 block of S. Pearl St. there lives a villainous creature so vile and disgusting that all should tread lightly. Some may call the creature a cat, but it is far more insidious then that name implies. It chases we poor 2-wheeled folk, meowing as blood drips down his fangs.
Seriously, the little a-hole chased me for a block.
Being that I cannot grow facial hair, I feel i do not fit in with the gang. But it got me thinking- is this the new trend? Instead of the Hell's Angels, will our generation have the Hell's Peddlers? Instead of stabbing rowdy people at Dead concerts, will we simply stand silently at emo concerts and blog about it later?
I think yes.
Denver is a pretty good city to bicycle in. It's mostly flat in the central Denver area, only getting terribly hilly the further you get out of town. I guess Cap Hill counts as not being flat, but it's not that bad. You big babies.
Single speed bikes work well here. And most of the city is pretty good about not running you over if you stay to the shoulder far enough. The one exception is the Tech Center. The people there don't seem to like we cyclers. I've only had 3 confrontations though.
Plus, it's a nifty way to see the neighborhoods.
I should mention, however, that upon the 800 block of S. Pearl St. there lives a villainous creature so vile and disgusting that all should tread lightly. Some may call the creature a cat, but it is far more insidious then that name implies. It chases we poor 2-wheeled folk, meowing as blood drips down his fangs.
Seriously, the little a-hole chased me for a block.
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