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A good crowd was on hand to pick out bike posters designed by local artist and have custom made shirts printed with some of the same designs used on the posters. The show was a great chance to hang out with other bike lovers and talk about rides we've been on and are planning on doing. Tonight's miles = 13
Tonight was the Biklops Hustle held in conjunction with the Biklops art show as part of First Friday at Screen Ink in downtown Lincoln. The race started at Screen Ink and we could go to the first 4 checkpoints in any order. After completing the 4th checkpoint we were told where the 5th checkpoint was.
Each checkpoint had it's own color of ink for us to fingerprint ourselves on our spoke card. There were also challenges including riding a child's sized bike through a series of cones at Precision Skateboards, blowing up a balloon then poping it with our butts, eating what must have been the worlds largest saltine cracker without anything to drink, eating a red, white & blue popsicle, and finding Waldo and posing for a picture with him.
The race must have been around 13 miles long and the first few racers in did it in under an hour. I hit a frost heave in the sidewalk hard a block from the finish and got a pinch flat, but the tire held air long enough for me to finish. I was beat by about 5 minutes by Michael Bikel and came away with 2nd place. Matt followed me across the finish line by a quarter of a second. There were 18 racers in tonight's hustle. For 2nd place I got a bag of loot with goodies from Screen Ink, Bike Pedalers, Lincoln Ve-Low, and other local businesses.
Riding downtown, racing and riding home got me 21.9 miles, with today's commute I have a total of 41.5 miles today.
The First Friday art walk tonight featured a collection including some bike paintings by local artist and avid cyclist Kimberly Brown.
I rode downtown to check it out adding an extra 10.5 miles on for the day.
I rode into the office, on the way home I took a spin down the Mopac, then stopped off at Sears where we were going to get some brake work done on the wife's car. Turns out they are still good. But getting cars worked on, paying for insurance, etc just ticks me off, it'd be nice to be one of those families that are totally car free. But hey, at least at my job when things get slow I don't have to walk the halls of the mall in a tire cover promoting specials.
Tonight is the first friday art walk featuring work by Kimberly Brown the cyclist/artist at Screen Ink. Go check it out starting at 7pm.
I also want to wish the best of luck to all my friends riding this weekend in the Urban Omaha Adventure Race, Norfolk's Crit Races, The Dirty Kanza 200 mile gravel race, and everyone embarking on BRAN this weekend. Have fun and ride safe!
The commute was cut short since I picked her car up making it just 17.3 miles.
