How's your bike?
It's fine, one of the hoods got worked a little loose, but otherwise it was fine. Dudes car had two really bad dents in it - one for the bar end shifter pushing into the plastimetal quarter panel (about a six inch gash) and another from where I landed.
Speaking of bikes, I got a new road bike at Spokes' Black Friday sale. Rode a few but took home a 54cm Specialized Secteur Comp Allez.
I'm a big fan of Specialized but I'm not too keen on the Comp frames to be honest. The build materials are excellent (aluminum with a carbon fork is hard to beat), I just like all of my tubes to be straight.
There's just not enough light to ride in
That's why you need one of the Niterider Luminas (equivalent to a smaller car headlight):
Those run around $150 and have a 2-4 hour battery life depending on the setting. When I ride around at night I have that on the front and two little blinkies on the back and I'm good to go whether I'm out on the Mt. Vernon Trail at 10pm or around Chinatown at 8pm.
