Getting to Know You!

[Cha Cha]

I appreciate the warm welcome!

Amy

[Cyclo Kitty]

Real name: Kirsten
Where do you live? Providence, RI

Explanation of your handle: Always wanted a nickname--Kitty--and it works out in a kind of CycloKitty/PsychoKiller (Talking Heads song) way

Explanation of your avatar: Don't have one yet

Age (general or specific):40, turning 41 in June

Occupation: I say deputy circus master, but I'm the Deputy Director for Collections at a historical society & museum

Favorite bike: Mmmmm, bikes...Today, I wish I had a Van Dessel Gin & Trombones; tomorrow, it could be a Pashley Princess Sovereign

What's in your stable? Pale Horse: mid 1990s Gary Fisher Aquila that I commute on year-round; Mrs. Slocum, a 1969 Raleigh Superbe step-thru 3 speed for summer skirt-wearing commuting; and the Sea Snail, a CDale Optimo 3 Cross racer

Fastest speed on a road bike? where? when? No computer on the Sea Snail yet, but 22.5 mph on the Aquila commuting down Power Street today

Another picture of yourself or your ride? There are some on my blog & I need to take more....

What is the biggest lie you've ever told: Blessedly, I have forgotten whatever it was!

Most memorable moment on my bike: Crashing on the bike path near Belmont Harbor in Chicago, riding with my Dad as a kid and scraping up my legs, so that a sun bather had to help me clean up. And the time that my coaster brake failed in Lincoln Park & I had to ride across the road w/o stopping....not long after that I got my first "real" bike with a 3-speed hub and hand brakes.

Most fun ever had on a bike? Every single ride! Well, almost. So far, the day I trimmed 2 minutes off the commute home. After that, test riding the CDale was pretty awesome all around.