Coffee Shop Ride Results!

Okay, so it’s been a while again.

Sorry!

But, to be fair, it’s been really busy.  REALLY busy.  Because it’s spring!  And everyone loves spring.  Everyone.  Even though that means that it’s forest fire season in New Mexico.

Bambi might not be so excited.

Speaking of forest fires, it is now Prescribed Burn Season in Michigan.  Well, it’s a little early.  The big burn season is coming up soon.  Just like the Spring Classics season of cycling.  Actually, they probably start around the same time.  Maybe Tom Boonen wins Paris-Roubaix because a team of naturalists wearing heat-proof suits are scorched-earth-ing the Carrefour de l’Arbre behind him.

Anyway, that’s great.  Fires!  Yay.

Also, what’s great is coffee.  I thought of some trivia about coffee.  Did you know:

• …that “coffee” was the first entry ever for Stuff White People Like?
• …that it takes approximately 140L of water to grow the beans for one steaming cuppa?
• …that the Starbucks siren logo was originally topless?
• …that Kona coffee is the only U.S. grown and processed coffee available?
• …that all this information came from Wikipedia and is therefore incontrovertible?

Also, next time you find yourself dancing strangely, you can blame it on the coffee buzz, like Kaldi and his goats.

Wicked coffee-bean-fueled electro-rave with a herd of goats? Yes, please.

Enough with the coffee trivia – on to the vegan meat-substitute of this blog post:  We had our first coffee shop ride on Saturday.  It was great!  (More of you should come next time… Espresso on Dennis!)  We met up at the Packard store parking lot at 9:00am, cameras and helmets and panniers at the ready, for a slow and steady jaunt into downtown toward Comet Coffee.  We staffers were joined by two bright, new faces, Sarah and Keaton.  It was a sunny morning that warmed right up into a brilliantly toasty afternoon.  And the coffee hit the spot.

Seriously: CHECK OUT COMET COFFEE.  I think it’ll be the regular stop, if only for the heart-shaped foam in Jess’ macchiato.

...And they're off!

Up along Huron Parkway.

ZZZOOOM ACTION SHOT!

True enjoyment.

Lovelovelovelove.

That's where the magic happens.

Brewing some fresh java for some other patrons.

It’s a wonderful thing.

May 2, 2009 @ 9:00 a.m.  Be there or be woefully undercaffeinated.  And have NO dance party with your goats.

There will be more posts.  Promise.  With the Two Wheel Tango Cinco de Mayo Sale coming up, there’s bound to be cool stuff to talk about.  And other reasons for you to come in and see our bright, smiling faces.  And for us to see your bright, smiling faces.  Both.  Maybe the brightness of our smiling faces combined could create sun-like fusion better than the large hadron collider.  At least maybe with less of a risk of earthly annihilation.

If the end of the world looks like Tron, I'll be fine with it. As long as Jeff Bridges is there somewhere.

Speaking of colliders, you ought join me in my appeal for Pizza Bob’s on State Street to name a collider after the LHC.  Seriously.  I bet it would be delicious.

BYE!

Sam.