Comments on: Rollin’ With the Mayor! http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/ Bike Your Drive! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ghost Rider http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6439 Ghost Rider Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:07:18 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6439 To us it WAS super cold! I agree that we look silly to the rest of the nation. If it was 58 degrees in Minneapolis right now, folks would be wearing shorts and flip-flops. To Floridians, that's some serious bundling-up weather! RL, kayaking in the Hillsborough River would go like this: if the kayak springs a leak, you can just walk to safety across the river on the backs of all those monster alligators. To us it WAS super cold!

I agree that we look silly to the rest of the nation. If it was 58 degrees in Minneapolis right now, folks would be wearing shorts and flip-flops. To Floridians, that’s some serious bundling-up weather!

RL, kayaking in the Hillsborough River would go like this: if the kayak springs a leak, you can just walk to safety across the river on the backs of all those monster alligators.

]]> By: Jamis_Bater http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6436 Jamis_Bater Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:30:52 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6436 Anytime a mayor joins the ride it's gotta be good for the local cycling culture. I have to admit to getting a chuckle at all the Floridians decked out like it was super cold. I layer up like those folks when it's in the 40's here. Of course there's probably an Alaskan reading that would laugh at my remark and tell me he wears that only when it hits 10. Anytime a mayor joins the ride it’s gotta be good for the local cycling culture. I have to admit to getting a chuckle at all the Floridians decked out like it was super cold. I layer up like those folks when it’s in the 40′s here. Of course there’s probably an Alaskan reading that would laugh at my remark and tell me he wears that only when it hits 10.

]]> By: RL Policar http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6418 RL Policar Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:30:44 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6418 Man you weren't kidding, I just saw this ... http://media.www.usforacle.com/media/storage/paper880/news/2006/05/22/News/Alligators.Among.Us-2012820.shtml Why would you kayak in that kind of water? Man you weren’t kidding, I just saw this … http://media.www.usforacle.com/media/storage/paper880/news/2006/05/22/News/Alligators.Among.Us-2012820.shtml

Why would you kayak in that kind of water?

]]> By: Ghost Rider http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6417 Ghost Rider Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:11:10 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6417 That's the Hillsborough River...recently restored and protected. It is CHOCK FULL of alligators (some real monsters, too). The river runs just north and west of my neighborhood and runs through the heart of downtown out to Tampa Bay. If I had a kayak I could commute to work that way, because the river passes right behind the library downtown. Talk about multimodal -- ride to the river, park my bike and get in the kayak, paddle south to work! That’s the Hillsborough River…recently restored and protected. It is CHOCK FULL of alligators (some real monsters, too).

The river runs just north and west of my neighborhood and runs through the heart of downtown out to Tampa Bay. If I had a kayak I could commute to work that way, because the river passes right behind the library downtown. Talk about multimodal — ride to the river, park my bike and get in the kayak, paddle south to work!

]]> By: RL Policar http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6416 RL Policar Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:02:57 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6416 Sounds pretty fun. So are there Alligators in that pond behind you guys? Can you go fishing in it? Sounds pretty fun. So are there Alligators in that pond behind you guys? Can you go fishing in it?

]]> By: Mindy http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6415 Mindy Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:27:18 +0000 http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/02/16/rollin-with-the-mayor/#comment-6415 Great report and photos, thanks. Great report and photos, thanks.

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