Mayor's Ride, Fall 2007

The crew and I woke up early to attend the Mayor's Hike and Bike. It was a hot afternoon but a great turnout. The ride started out at the Waterfront and progressed to the Second Street bridge. The racers and "people with egos" were encouraged to progress to the front of the pack. How right they were. I won't digress into negativism (yet) by talking about those individuals. Let me just say that those people need to get a grip.....IT"S LABOR DAY! I also met up with Yellow Y and Fasterdulin and we trotted along across the bridge. My cousin was the slow one in our pack. At 28 years old, she still doesn't know how to shift gears on her bike. We had to continually wait up for her, but hey, SHE"S GOT LITTLE LEGS!!

As we progressed on, I was getting a little fidgity on the road. I would ride up on the sidewalk and pop off the curb. A roadie came up to me and told me to stay off the sidewalk. He then began ordering everyone else on the road to the right. As Rodney Dangerfield said, "Who made you Pope of this dump?" I won't tell you guys what I said back to him....... My brother and I began discussing that every social group has their nazis. It was pretty aggravating. At Lexington Road and Grinstead drive, an old lady went down on her bike. She landed right on her chin. People had her hold pressure on the bloody wound. I gave her a large bandaid I had in my pack. Luckily the 1st responders were quick to the scene. The light at that intersection was so short, that you had to go on a full on sprint to make it across when it turned green. The rest of the ride was fun despite the heat.

Here are some tunes from Gang of Four. They are some live tracks that I have picked up here and there. The first track, We Live, As We Dream Alone, came from a live album that I got on ebay. I think that it was some sort of farewell concert in the 80's.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4m29dc2vsez

This next one sounds like something from their early period. I LOVE the sound quality of this track. I prefer the sound of sloppy 4-track sounds to polished tracks any day. This is live at a place called Mother's. One of my favorite tracks, Not Great Men:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bdx12m5zbx1