Kayaking isn’t prominently featured on TBS, but there are some boaters in out ranks. Didn’t see any of you on Saturday (a week ago) during Reno River Festival, but I did get some footage of the quarter finals.

Saw some sweet boating from Scot Sady, Eric Jackson, Billy Bob Malesky, KB, Brian Kirk, Nick Troutman and Jason Craig. From what I understand these are some highly reputable yakers. They phonixed their monkeys up one side and down the other…

Thanks to Johny Moseley for the shout out. Great meeting and chatting with you!

I wasn’t able to get this posted sooner because of the arrival of the newest member of Team Bacon Strip: Bowie. He arrived Sunday the 9th @ 13:24. Check him out!

Peace!

-M

[NOTICE: They changed the Survey link, If you already voted, please vote again!]

The official Team Bacon Strip video for Tour De Cul De Sac has been selected for the top 20 in the Reno River Festival’s Humans in Motion video contest!

Show your support for The Team, The Tour and Jerz falling off a bike by voting for the TDC video here.

Vote at work, the vote at home, then vote from every computer you have, then tell all your friends. If–WHEN–we win, I’ll use the money to bankroll the TBS t-Shirts and Sock Guy Socks!

ALSO be sure to click the “resommend” button below and share this will your Facebook friends!

-M

Jim Litchfield posted this photo to the TBS Facebook page for the Humans in Motion Video Contest he’s running for the Reno River Fest.

I’m thinking of entering the Tour de Cul de Sac 2009 video:

Anyone have any other videos to enter? I’ll find out when the voting happens and how we can try to bring home the bacon for the team on this one.

-M

Rode up to the building today and say Cane from CURB System testing their new units in our parking lot.

The system is basically an automated parking lot payment system with an automated bike rack attached. The final units will have two top tube mount bike holders that clamp down loosely but securely. It has two cables that can secure both wheels or a seat.

Not sure on final costs, but Cane says they should have between 50 and 400 installed by June.

-M

Google just added a cool new feature to their Maps Application that lets you pick out routes that are best for cycling. Looks like they are using data from city maps based on mapped bike routes. As we know, Washoe RTC doesn’t necessarily have all the existing bike routes on the map, but this is a start.

“To use the new biking directions you need to click on the ‘Get Directions’ link in Google Maps and choose the ‘Bicycling’ option from the drop down menu. When you select the ‘Bicycling’ option the map view will change to show the roads and paths that are suitable for biking. Bike paths with no cars are shown in dark green and roads with bike lanes are shown in light green.” Read More

Here are two routes I mapped from my office to UNR.

Bike Route

Car route

Here’s the current Reno Bike Pedestrian Advisory Committee Map. This was mapped by the volunteer committee with the goal that it become part of the official map and take the place of the old Reno Bike Map. It would be awesome if google had a way for local groups to contribute to that map.

-M

This just in from VNasty:

My Manhattan swinging sister has painted NYC with some TBS flavor….ahhhhh…the smell of bacon, coast to coast.

Nasty

More from Nasty NV

Some crappy news about the Transportation bill and those looking to prevent federal funds being spent on bike and pedestrian infrastructure:

Speak up for Trails, Walking and Biking Now

On Tuesday, September 15, Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) issued two amendments to the FY10 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. If passed, these amendments would eliminate the majority of available federal funds for trails, walking and bicycling.

Amendment 2370 would prohibit the use of federal funds for pedestrian or bicycle facilities, efforts to reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife, or other specified Transportation Enhancement (TE) projects if the Highway Trust Fund cannot cover unfunded highway authorizations.

Amendment 2371 is even trickier; while it claims to allow states to opt out of spending on TE projects, the actual amendment text in fact notes that “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement” TE projects.

For more information check the Rails-To-Trails website.

-M

Up waiting for an Reno PD officer to show up and make a statement. Someone broke in and stole some stuff. Watched this. It was relaxing…

If it’s still in the budget after deductibles I’ll get a Rose pass this year. Who else?

-M

Bike FTW!!!

photo by Bike Portland

This was sent to me by my cousin-in-law, Dan, as told to him by his hairdresser, Roy. (names and relationships have been changed to protect, oh what the fuck, it was Dave and Ray.)

 

Last week Roy was riding to work down Plumb and making the right onto Kietzke and a truck made a late right and almost hit him. 

He yelled at the truck “Nice Turn Signal!”  This set the guy off.  He yelled at Roy to go to Carrow’s parking lot so he could kick his ass. 

In the parking lot the guy jumps out of his truck, tears his down coat off and starts running towards Roy who is still on his bike. Roy just geared down and started riding circles around the guy telling him all he said was “Nice Turn Signal and that was my lane and you almost hit me.”  

The guy says that’s not your lane and to get off the bike so he can proceed to ass kick.  Roy rides around him taunting him with “A little to much caffeine this morning?  You are going to give yourself a coronary”, etc. 

By this time the guy is quite a ways from his still running truck with the door open.  Roy sprints past the guy, egging him on, and locks the door of the truck and rides to work with a shit eating grin on his face. 

The guy was typical Reno cowboy:  Tight grape smuggler jeans, big belt buckle and white tennies.

 

Strip o bacon and Tall Can to you Roy!

-M

Snowboard Movie @ the Reno Bike Project.

Nov22nd
541 East 4th Street
Reno, Nevada

-M