Bike day!

My new bike, locked up and safe!

Saturday, after visiting the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Alicia and I visited Penn Cycle to find her a bike. Ever the loyal Target employee, I visited Target to pick me up the fine specimen you see locked-up on the south-west corner the IDS Tower block. 

Bullet points about this picture: 

• I biked from our house to downtown Minneapolis in under 30 minutes, which is fantastic, considering the walk + train ride averages about 30
• I haven't biked since I was working at Burger King at the age of 15
• It was fantastic - there's a trail along the light rail tracks and it's a blast to watch the trains go by. Here's an action shot with Minneapolis in the background (and a missing Metrodome):

• It was far easier than I expected - computing the calories consumed later, the hour round-trip was equivalent to running about two miles, which I do in about 16 minutes
• Yeah yeah, it's a pain in the butt taking the front wheel off to lock it along with the back. I'll probably purchase a second lock... But I wasn't getting my brand new bike stolen on it's first trip to downtown Minneapolis on such a beautiful Sunday

Anywho, brace yourself - pictures taken while biking are coming.