Lack of interest: cycling races

[rebeccaC]

Okay a bit off topic, but then there is the other extreme - Yesterday the Tour De Fat took place in Boise. 10,000 people dressed up in stupid costumes riding bicycles. Sorry but to me that paints bike riding to another realm and IMO does very little to promote riding your bike as a means of transportation. Yes, I am a curmudgeon and we avoid the event like the plague. On a more positive note we had a lovely bike ride through the foothills yesterday morning, 24 miles of rolling hills.

thinking you wouldn't like the tutu and fairy wings that i put on for riding across the finish line in the Cinderella Challenge......

from the Tour de Fat photos on flickr it looked like a great time yesterday for those who participated.....it also raises a lot of money for bike advocacy groups in the Boise area ($75,000 this year and $300,000+ since it started in Boise).....hopefully that can temper your curmudgeon attitude