A good day to be on the bike.

 Improvements just keep popping up.  After resurfacing Duke Street this past week, the city surprised me

with new bike lanes.  On this residential street they saw fit to follow the popular protocol and striped narrower traffic lanes and marking the leftover space for bike lanes.

It was a surprise to me and leads all the way from Kilgore Rd to Whites Rd which is scheduled for a diet next year.  The local bike network is growing.

     After the fleeting celebration in my brain, I took a ride across town to the KRVT enjoying a perfect bike riding day.  The temps were in the 70's, sunny, with a mild breeze and I was barely working up a sweat when I came upon a tourist having trouble with a flat.  I had a spare Flat Attack tube which I gladly donated to get him on schedule.  

     After the flat incident I led him through the downtown maze to the bike shop where he could buy a couple extra tubes and patches.  Sofian is a Swiss student who just completed his BA in German and History at the Swiss university in Lousanne.  I rode along with him and had a great time talking.  His English is much better than my French, so we stuck to English (not that I gave him a choice).   His plans are to travel to Chicago, take Amtrak to Seattle and travel down the coast, through Mexico and Central America to Columbia before heading home to continue with his MA  to pursue an academic career.  I'm just glad I was able to help on the trip.  If I knelt to the Strava god, my score would have sucked, but it was a great day to be on a bike.