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friendly bicycle in Bellingham at Western Washing University

I’m back from visiting with my home skillet Timmy in Bellingham, WA! He’s going to school at Western Washington University there, so I spent a lot of time roaming the campus and working in the library with Beef (the rat) during the week. I also went around and took pictures of some of the many (so very very many) bikes on campus. So… uhm, I’m just gunna blast you all with a million bike pictures now. Enjoy:

lots of bikes! hammered fenders!

this seat was hecka cool! i liked the gold foil tape and color scheme of this other bike!

flashy fixie and some ghetto light rigging!

that crow was on one of the bikes just a few seconds prior! surly long haul trucker = supah tour cycle! covered bike racks people! cover is vital!

lotsa bikes, lotsa style! i have a deep weakness for yellow bikes…

lonnng bike for all your crap-toting needs! orange bike! supah minimalist bianchi!

bikes errywhere! hexagonal racks abound!

so many bikes! yellow panniers! friendly bike!

couple more long cycles… there is probably definitely a word for them…

bikes at night! some uncovered and getting all cold & wet in the rain :/

cycles! the friendly bike again? whoops. well.. it is nice.

a pretty little peugeot up there. and more bikes! endless bikes!

an electric-hybrid-somethin-er-other bike! annnd Timmy’s bike that I derped around while I was in town!

Yup. Turns out, Bellingham is quite bike friendly. Here’s some more rando pictures from my trip:

this caught my eye in the library…

beef was so well behaved at school

…he done slept through most of it.

…one last picture of beef, hitching a ride with Timmy after class

That is all. Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday time! Byeeee.

this post was written by lizzy

this….this is what bikes should not look like

Where to begin…

Well, turns out there was a series of unfortunate events which ultimately lead to the tacoing of my front wheel. If you’re unfamiliar with the term… just… just use your imagination.

Anyways, lessons learned: don’t cruise in the park at night without a front light, don’t crash into invisible nighttime holes, don’t remove vital parts from your cycle, don’t let your dear brother ride off on your now death-trap-bicycle-thing, and don’t DON’T don’t hide your ratboy in a pannier and forget where you put him five minutes later in the midst of all the crash hub-bub.

BUT HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: everything worked out okay in the end, so no worries. Except that the Stinks now know the deep depths of my stupidity. Oh well, it was bound to come out sooner or later.

In other good news, it was Thanksgiving! I was feeling very thankful that no serious harm was done during The Great Wheel Tacoing Event of 2014. Stink even fixed up my cycle good as new on Thanksgiving night, so I am once again free to ride and be a danger to the public.

Stink surveys the damage with deep disappointment radiating from her soul

In more other news, I’m up in Bellingham, Washington for the week with my good friend/(brother?) Timmy. I brought along a few of our highly professional definitely very centered & accurate non-business cards to spread around up here.

some Within Biking Distance non-business cards,looking all profesh, before cutting…

I can’t think of any other pressing news, so I’ll leave it off here. I hope all you lovely people had equally lovely Thanksgivings.  Till next time, be safe & ride freeeeeee!

a doodle, because we’ve decided that we really like this whole watsi thing. 🙂

a doodle, because we've decided that we really like this whole watsi thing. 🙂 withinbikingdistance.com #watsi #charity #good #bikes #bicycles #biketour #doodles #sketch #mspaint #drawing

A photo posted by Within Biking Distance (@withinbikingdistance) on Nov 21, 2014 at 3:07pm PST