Shout out to all who participated in Bike Walk Week.  Today was THE day if you were only going to pick one day to not drive alone in your car but instead bike, walk, carpool, or take public transportation.  There are freebies (mostly coffee and baked goods) from participating companies scattered all throughout the metro area.  I got a lovely free coffee cake and tea from our neighbors at Trotter’s Cafe.  Mmmm… delish!

The Twin Cities Bike Walk Week website has tons of info to help you out if you want to make this a summer-long activity.  Or if you’re more research-oriented, you can check out Mechanical & Transportation Abstracts for  articles on bike engineering, bike commuting or bike safety.  Even bigger than Mechanical & Transportation Abstracts, is the new Engineering Research Database. ERD can handle all your engineering article needs.  It’s pretty big.   Also, not suprisingly, GreenFile has a lot of articles on biking from environment/ecology journals.

If you weren’t able to get out on your bike this week due to the hundred degree weather, and then the 50 degree weather and finally rain, don’t fret, you got all summer to go for it.  So go for it.