Posts Tagged as ‘bikes’

November 30, 2008

testimony

I worked the drive thru window at a McDonald’s several years ago. I was never told an official policy about non-vehicles through the drive-thru, and it only happened a dozen times over 2 years, but the problems with people coming through with bikes/walking were:
1) Bikes/people don’t activate the weight sensor and so our headsets don’t [...]

November 30, 2008

research: how this will help ____.

“Teens are more apt to eat fast food because it is convenient and typically a social affair.”
- Article: Teen Eating Habits
“More than one-third of all meals are eaten away from home, with the vast majority of these meals taken at fast-food restaurants. Sales in restaurants and bars have nearly tripled since 1980, with nearly $60 [...]

November 18, 2008

documentation of a lost idea

This didn’t make the cut but I still like the idea of having a Juicy Couture Bike fashion show. Just think: Beautiful dresses, like prom dresses, something some little bratty girl would love to get her snotty hands on. Skin-and-bone models wearing these dresses, looking utterly disgusting yet entrancing and envious of their tiny beauty. [...]

November 12, 2008

pedestrians are unpredictable

So it didn’t rain this morning. I biked during a class change for the first time and nearly hit about 10 different people. It was kind of fun dodging and swerving around them, but sometimes I got a little nervous when some bloke would be walking in one direction and abruptly change direction on me; [...]

November 11, 2008

understanding these people

So I’ve been riding my bike every day since Friday and I can tell that my endurance, though pathetic it may be, has indeed increased. However I may break my every day riding rule because it may rain tomorrow. I haven’t decided yet. It would be a good opportunity to really understand what it’s like [...]

November 9, 2008

mainstream

Logan and I rode our bikes to Atlantic Station then to IKEA and then to Tech this evening. It was a lot of fun and i can really see how people can get addicted to riding their bikes everywhere they go, but right now I don’t think it’s very practical. Don’t get me wrong it [...]