Presto Electro

Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all made it through that ARCTIC BLAST safely. I spent most of December in Austin, so I missed out on all of the awesome winter weather we got up here. A "White Christmas" in Texas is a rare thing indeed.

I'm back in town now, and the weather is back to the normal winter range in Texas: 50-60 degrees. This works out really wellfor me, because I'm planning on doing a lot more biking this year. I got a sweet new helmet and bike-lock for Christmas so I now have absolutely no excuse.

My bike is a 21-speed with un-bust-able polycarbonate tires, and it's a great way to get around Denton. Denton is a great city for biking. Everything is nice and close together, and the roads are plenty wide. There are also a handful of parks throughout the city that are great for recreational riding.

My place is 2 miles from both campuses, and less than a mile from just about everything else. The average person on a road bike can maintain a speed of approximately 15 mph. Even if I am really lazy about it, I could bike anywhere in Denton is less than ten minutes, and in weather like this, the drive is practically air conditioned! If I can invent a way to carry my books and groceries on this bike, I'll basically never have to use a car again.

I sometimes wish I had gotten a mountain bike, though. There are a ton of parks and trails around here, and a road bike is no fun in the woods. Maybe when this bike wears out I'll replace it with something that would fare a little better on the greenbelt.