How they roll in bike

How they roll in bike Clearly, a town that engraves a picture of a bicycle on its municipal trash cans has got a thing for bicycles. Davis is that town, and its trash cans are not the only place to find bikes. They also on streets, sidewalks and bike paths. They locked to bike racks, locked to trees, locked to fences and locked to other bicycles. Joined at the seat tube with a Kryptonite lock, two stuck together bikes look as if they could be reproducing, which might account for all the bikes that have taken over Davis like zombies in a zombie picture. Davis is a joyous town for a joyride. Pick up a free bicycle map just about anyplace, open it up and marvel at all the bike lanes (green lines), bike paths (orange lines) and bike routes (dotted lines) on it. The bike map even marks by number and grid coordinates no fewer than 23 places where you can pump your tires ( air sources You and your bike can get to Davis on the trains (bikes ride free in the onboard bike racks) and then take a loop ride around town or set off on the bigger all day loop to historic Woodland and even more historic Sacramento and then back to Davis on the causeway trail. Some of the bike routes lead to the UC Davis campus, where occasionally a student has been known to get off his or her bicycle and attend class. The classroom is a destination. Cyclists know that the destination is a lot less important than the http://www.personalhealthorganiser.co.uk act of getting there, and no variety of cyclist knows that more than the college student kind. A great thing to do on a campus bike ride is to seek out the series of whimsical giant bronze eggheads by famed sculptor and UC Davis Professor . They at least as weird as trash cans with engraved bicycles on them. has a bike. You are issued one at the hospital at birth. Many people have two. Some people have a lot more than two. There are said to be more bikes in Davis than people. You need a bike to ride to the Bicycling Hall of Fame, so you can park it outside and pay $5 and go inside to look at all the other bikes you don possess but wish you did. The Bicycling Hall of Fame is a three story museum, smack in the middle of downtown, where other cities might put their city halls or http://www.bmwdpfdelete.co.uk their police stations or something useful. It got bikes ridden by famous people in famous races, and it also got the smelly jerseys that the famous people wore in the famous races. It got a bicycle built for six and it got a bicycle made out of bamboo and it got those penny farthing bikes with the giant front wheels that your great great grandpa rode when he was courting your great great grandma. The only thing it doesn have is stuff. The museum kicked out Armstrong and all the other disgraced cheaters. don want to, um, recognize bicyclists who were involved with, umm, incentives, explained the museum docent, choosing his words more carefully than many bike racers chose their coaches. There are still plenty of non cheaters bikes and jerseys to look at. Inside a display case is the jersey wore when he won the in 1986. It got only seven advertising logos on it, unlike modern race jerseys, which have dozens more. If for some reason you find yourself in Davis without a bike, despair not. There are no fewer than 13 bicycle stores in town. Stand on the main downtown intersection and, within a block and a half, there are four bike stores. Step into the B Bike Store and take your pick of 42 models of handlebar bells, the things that go and 26 models of handlebar horns, the things that go got bells in the shape of a duck, pig, shark, flag, soccer ball, dog, cat, said store owner . try to keep every animal in stock. Right now we are missing the white cow, but we do have the purple cow, if you are looking for a cow. text >With so many bike stores, she says, every store owner must carve out a different niche of the market. Annon Lovering does not sell the Tour de France wannabe stuff made out of carbon fiber. She sells heavy metal family stuff, and piggie bells, and clunkers. At the store down the street, you can buy two bikes that each cost 20 times as much as one of her clunkers and weigh a third as much. With bicycles, the more you pay, the fewer pounds you get. only retail we have left in Davis is bike stores and coffee places, she said with a sigh. lost the record stores and bookstores. We do have bars. text >At Davis Wheelworks, a few steps away, you can see the bike rode in the 2001 Tour de France. At the Freewheel Bike shop, you can pick up a $17,000 Trek. A few steps farther is the Apex bike shop. It open by appointment, which means you probably can afford what inside. Almost any of the bike shops sell bike locks, which pose the eternal conundrum of cycling. To protect a cheap, heavyweight bike, you buy a cheap, lightweight lock. But to protect an expensive, lightweight bike, you buy an expensive, heavyweight lock. To figure this one out, pedal straight to the UC Davis philosophy department.