I took this photo outside the Belmont library on my way home one day last week. It’s a sweet, antique bike with a hand-crafted wooden rear rack which holds that huge yellow recycling bin from Lunenburg, Mass. (home of one of our CSAs, Parker Farm). The part I don’t get is why it’s locked up. I mean, who would steal a bike that conspicuous? It can’t be worth much on the black market, can it? And this is Belmont after all: “The Town of Homes”… and Bike Thieves, I guess.
It’s been an unusual week here at MetroPed. One of our clients decided to end our 16-month relationship for business reasons. So that means my usual Tuesday and Wednesday routes will be somebody else’s concern… somebody in a van! It’s too bad because we worked with some great people down there.
I have to say it’s a bit of a relief not having to do those routes, though. Until this week I had done double Boston routes 22 Tuesdays in a row… almost as long for the Wednesday Cambridge routes. Relieved of this brutal burden, Dan and I each took one of the two Enterprise CSA routes this past Wednesday. Mine was only 12 deliveries and covered 9 miles, mostly in Somerville. Two hours… a breeze!
Since I wasn’t riding as much this week, I had time to work on some other things, namely this video advertisement for MetroPed. If you can’t see it because you don’t have QuickTime, it’s also on YouTube, but it’s not rendered as well there. I created the background music with GarageBand and put the thing together with iMovie. Let me know what you think…
Well… happy trails. Until next week…