I'M BACK.

"Me with my yellow Schwinn Sprint,

 next to the Nice Ride bikes in the twin cities."

Hello everyone,

I'm back from my trip to St. Paul/Minneapolis.  I went through the LCI class ((League Cycling Instructor) LCI teaches people how to be safe on a bike, and how to cycle on the road confidently), and it went very well.  I nailed all the road and parking lot skills, but i have to go back again in the fall and take the class again, my instructor wants me to come back again, he said because i need to get my knowledge of the info down, and be better at presenting in front of people (i have never been good at talking in front of crowds). 

As part of the class, we had to ride on some of the main roads with the traffic.  That was very fun to do along with the parking lot skills.  All the different people i meet that were taking the class with me were from all over Minnesota (Minneapolis, Hutchinson, St. Cloud, Bemidji, etc..., just to name a few places).  I ate out a lot just to try some of the different places down there, and one place that i ate was "pizza luca"  (i think thats how you spell it), and the pizza was the best i have ever eaten, words could not describe it.  I sat outside next to my locked up bike, and i looked down the block from where my bike was and every bike rack was full of bikes.

Almost every kind of bike was locked up next to mine, from Fuji's to Xtracycles, and seeing the same amount of bikes on the road as there are cars, made me happy to be doing what i'm doing at Shifting Gears.  

I had to stop by a bike shop to get my back brakes repaired, and i went by a bike shop called "Spokes." When i walked in there i felt at home, because they are the same thing as Shifting Gears basically.  They let me use their repair stand and repair my brakes, they would have let me use their tools, but i had my 30 in one tool with me.  

I looked at my comment page today, at all the wonderful comments that were left when i was gone.  I just wanna Thank You guys for commenting and visiting my blog.  When i started this blog last year i did not expect the popularity of it to be more than a few people from my home town, but it has gone world wide, and that just makes me happy to think that biking is that popular and so many people are looking up the things im blogging about.  That only makes me want to keep this going and blog about the things that aren't easy to find on the internet.  Please do not be shy to ask me questions about bikes or suggest something to blog about, and if i don't know the answer to it, i know a couple people that would.  I'm always looking for things to put on my blog.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Keep on Biking....