Apologies!

Hello!

There are sorries and apologies in order.  With the Spring season ramping up, this little corner of cyberspace has fallen into neglect.

NO MORE!

The new leaf has been turned over, and we bloggers at Two Wheel Tango are back in action!

A new leaf, turned over.

“What’s the latest news?” you may ask.  I’ll talk about three things for now.

(1) Well, back in February, the Michigan Daily published this piece on bicycle taxis in Ann Arbor.  Nancy Shore, our favorite Ann Arbor civil servant and head of the getDowntown program, shared with the paper her enthusiasm and her qualms about such a service, given the weather, populations, and infrastructural lackings of our small town.  Interesting idea, though!

Methinks it's a possibility.

Anyone out there remember when Facebook and Chase Credit Cards brought those bicycle taxis to the University of Michigan Central Campus a few years back?  Out of nowhere, these free (of charge, not of propagandizing) pedal-powered taxis popped up outside the Michigan Union.  All it cost was the time to get from Point A to Point B and a schpeel about how much you could be saving with Facebook/Chase plastic.  Would the Facebook show your status as your latest purchase?  Who knows.  Scary.

(2) Big ups to Ann Arbor Cyclery, Jimmy Raggett, the Fixed Gear Gallery / He** Yes Clothing folks, the Blind Pig, and all their sponsors for the series of sprints that went on in February!  SO COOL!  Several of us got the chance to test our mettle against the area’s best and most hipster-liciously aware riders.  Three fixies sans front wheels were set up on contraptions devised by Dennis Bean-Larson and the gang, run through a Linux-based program that calculated distance covered.  The race was to a virtual 500 m finish line. The popcorn was free.

A very special shout-out to Rich S. and Brad B., two Tango regulars whose faces we were happy to see.

(3) The Commuter Challenge – put on by the city of Ann Arbor and the getDowntown team – is rapidly approaching!  Don’t know about it?  Don’t know how to register your workplace?  Want to know about the extremity of the coolness that comes with registration?  Clickity-click here.  Also, the springtime brings all sorts of cool activities to town through the getDowntown crew.  Whether you use Twitter, RSS blog feeds, e-mail, or ancient Greek fryktories fire signal communication, they’ll keep you posted on all the latest events if you want to know!

Does Ann Arbor use signal fires? Probably not. But maybe.

Soooo…  That’s the biggest of the big news.  …For now.  …That I can think of off the top of my head.  Stay tuned for more wonderful insights into the twisted minds of the blogging retail staff here at Two Wheel Tango!

Ride safely and ride often!

– Sam