Red Octagonal Doom

This weeks rant brought to you buy the letters "S", "T", "O", and by the letter "P". Thats right every cyclists mortal enemy the "Stop Sign". I don't know about you but to me stop signs are one of my biggest hassles when riding my bike.

Every time I have to stop on my bike I loose all that momentum that makes cruising down the street so easy. It takes a while to get up to full cruising speed in 18th gear. By the time I do it seems like there's another stop sign in my way and I have to slow down, shift gears and stop. Then look both ways and if its my right of way start working my way back up to speed. It is like that all the way to work, stop go stop go.

I ride 3.4 miles to work each day, and there are nine stop signs. Thats a stop sign every 600 meters or so. Which means that I basically have just enough time to get up to speed and in the zone long enough to enjoy it before I have to stop again. So...

Get a Bike, but be wary of the stop signs, they're out to get you!