The Road To The Future Is a Bicycle Highway By Rogr Lee

Th' RoAd tO th' fUTurEiS a BiCYcle HIghWay

Rogr Lee©

2004 Donald Roger Lee (SOCAN)

(Y' know I've seen there's) bad things coming down the pipe

Faster than the speed of hype
Things are gonna take a bite out of the world as we know it
Everything is heating up, spinning 'round, this speeding up
Fear and lies are eating up the world as we know it

And Th' Road to th' Future is a Bicycle Highway
Th' Road to th' Future is a Bicycle Highway

Feel the wind in your hair, smell the beautiful air
Wave hello to a stranger!

(Y'know there's) hard things coming down the pipe

Faster than the speed of hype
Things are gonna take a bite out of the world as we know it
Everything is heating up, spinning 'round, this speeding up
Fear and lies are eating up the world as we know it

And Th' Road to th' Future is a Bicycle Highway
Th' Road to th' Future is a Bicycle Highway

Feel the wind in your hair, smell the beautiful air
Wave hello to a stranger!

Good Deed

Well today on my commute I had the opportunity to do a good deed. These chances never seem to come about to often, so I figured I would take this opportunity.

As I am heading down the road I am noticing that traffic is getting backed up in my lane. I try to see what the problem is, as I get closer I start to notice two guys pushing a stalled car. I pedaled up closer and jumped off my bike and gave them a hand to push the car into the gas station. Luckily it wasn't to far. After getting him to the pumps I hopped back on my bike and was off, didn't give the guy enough time to say thanks...who knows if he would've even said Thanks. He was probably embarrassed of causing a back up in traffic.

I don't know what this guy may of thought about people who ride bikes...either way I hope this brings a new light to his thoughts. It might even encourage him to get on a bike...might even be a little more reliable than his CAR!!

Bike Songs

So the other day at work, someone mentions to me about the song "Bicycle Race" by Queen. I forget how it came up in conversation. But yeah that is one song that I do not have on my IPOD. But I did share with her, that is a song that I sometimes sing in my head moments before a ride. You know it is just all that anticipation of being free while I ride.



I decided to share some of the songs that I feel are Bicycle inspired and enjoy listening as I am rolling along on the pavement.


In future post I will supply the lyrics and possibly a link so that you too will be able to enjoy these songs......

For now here is the list...............

The Road To The Future Is A Bicycle Highway by Rogr Lee
One Less Car by Whitey on the Moon
My Bike by Ghoti Hook
Bicycle Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Surfwax America by Weezer
The Acoustic Motorbike by Luka Bloom
Girls On Bikes by Royce
Bicycle Built For Two by Mitch Miller
Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle by Be Your Own Pet
Bicycle Song by Orbit
My White Bicycle by Tomorrow
Bicycle by Pumptown
Bicycle by Livingston Taylor

Bike Movers

So the other day I was helping my Future Brother In Law move. It was a nice cool day, we had some snow from the night before roads weren't too bad. Of course he had a bike that we needed to get to his new place. I knew of only one way to get that bike to his new apartment...a no brainer......RIDE IT!!

So off I went...now during this ride of course I thought about something that I read on the Internet about people moving just by bikes and a lot of people and trailers. Yeah that would be great to do.

But getting back on track...as I approach an intersection, I see a fellow cyclist. He is pulling out of a driveway with a trailer full of "stuff"...then I look again....another Trailer with a TV...I Look again and ANOTHER TRAILER with some more prized possessions. He had a friend with him that had a fridge...I had to take a close look to see if that was on a trailer...but he was walking with it on a fridge cart. But yeah I was amazed to see this guy hauling all of those trailers.

I had to stop and make a quick phone call to Tracy to share this exciting news. So I thought I would share here as well.

Happy New Year to all...It's going to be a GREAT one!!

Types of Honks

Types of honks

March 2nd, 2007 by Tim Grahl

I’ve noticed two main types of honks I receive from cars during my commute:

“Get off the road!” - We all know and love these type of drivers. The ignorants who give the honk as they fly around you to make a point that bikes don’t belong on the road. Still not sure where they think we belong, but I guess that’s why they are generally stupid people.

“Hey! It’s a guy on a bike!” - This is the most perplexing to me. At least every three or four commutes I get a car that honks at me for no apparent reason. There’s no malice involved. And I can’t imagine other cyclists (that happen to be in cars) doing this as we know that it’s distracting to be honked at. So I haven’t been able to figure out exactly why these people honk at me.

Do you get this same thing?

Did I miss any honks?