The West Side

When Facebook when to their timeline layout, I had to come up with a "cover"  picture for our store page .  I picked one that I liked, and (in my mind) represented my store. I chose the photo without really thinking too much about.  Since I'm interested in what other stores do, I started looking at what they were doing with their pages.  What I noticed was pictures of bikes, pictures of store fronts but very few pictures of......people. Without even thinking about it, I was showing the world what I think makes my store special.  It's the people; dedicated, enthusiastic, experienced people. We are lucky enough to have really great customers that shop my store because of the personal  relationship they have with us.   I appreciate each and every one of them. Ride on!

So, I'm finally getting around to writing about my experience at the National Bike Summit.  A bit late, but it's given me some time to reflect on the experience.  After all, it's on thing to visit the Capitol, and it's quite another to be inside the Capitol lobbying our Representatives (staff actually, but you get the point).  It's kind of overwhelming.  The National Bike Summit is organized by the League of American Bicyclists , the oldest cycling advocacy group in the country.  Over 800 people attended the event, and all but one state (Alaska) was represented.  Over a dozen of us from Indiana took time out of our schedules to stand up for cycling.  I traveled with 3 other members of INDYCOG , and  Nancy from Bicycle Indiana did a great job organizing, and scheduling meetings with our Reps.   The point of the Summit is to ask Congress to maintain funding for bike, and pedestrian infrastructure.  These funds are seemingly always in jeopardy