Still Keeping it Up

So there's been a few pretty close calls, but I still consider my car diet ongoing. On Thursday morning Suzanne had to be somewhere downtown very early for an outreach event for her work. She's been having some problems with pink eye and couldn't drive because of it, so I drove her in her car. I don't consider this breaking the rules for a few reasons. For one, how could I say no, second, I still rode my bike to work that day after I dropped her off, and third I didn't drive my own car. I know some of you will be like, "This isn't much of a test if he's still driving cars," but I'm trying my best. Suzanne has offered to do a guest post for all of my loyal readers so stay tuned for that one. Other than that one time I've been very good about biking and walking everywhere.

So it turns out that I ordered the wrong pedal size for my bike. For those of you looking to get a new set of pedals for your bike make sure that you check the thread size of them. There's only two types 1/2" and 9/16". They're only a 1/16th of an inch different, but it doesn't matter. I'm sending them back to Amazon and I've ordered some new ones. Also I was getting tired of borrowing Suzanne's bike, so I just took off my bike pedal and now all that's left is a rod. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be. I just wear some tough soled shoes whenever I ride it and it's not so bad. There's still some grease on the rod so my foot slips off every once in a while.

Anyway the East coast was hit with a record breaking snow storm this weekend. It's yet another test of my no-more-car will. Biking and walking to work are going to be more difficult, but arguably more safe than driving. I'll let you all know how this affects my transportation in my new no car environment in upcoming posts.