just look in his eyes and then you'll see why

well our fair city held its first ever bikefest this evening, in conjunction with its "green fair" (that featured, among other things, free rides on a segway, which is about as green as my ass), and i think the organizers would have to call it a success. the older boy, on hand as an employee and representative of the great lakes bike shop, did well in the trackstand competetion although his nearly 22-minute time was eventually beaten. here he demonstrates his execellent form and concentration:
















after ten minutes, he has managed to turn himself 90 degrees anti-clockwise, in his own impression of a foucault pendulum:
















great lakes also had tallbikes represented:
















this young man eventually posted the longest time of 36 minutes, not bad for a town with no actual bicycle couriers. a couple of minutes after i took this picture he removed his backpack and handed it to the woman at right; he had the no-handed thing down pretty good.
















it is tricky to get decent photographs of jumping bicycles with anything besides an slr, but i tried. here is one:















blogger doesn't seem to want to continue uploading photos any more this evening, so more jjump pictures will have to wait. but yes it was a fun time, nice to hang out on the street with other bicycling idiots, show off my track bike (although braden's 3rensho totally stole the show, at least for people who care about such things. it is a very pretty bike, although he and i should trade cranks so his can be (nearly) all-njs and mine can be (nearly) all italian. perhaps someday...