Friday Feedbag and Quotable Links...

Some of these go well back into August, but they were pretty good, so if you missed them now is your chance to catch up.

"...making those short trips on bicycles could save approximately four trillion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, 1100 lives and $7 billion in mortality and health care costs for the region every year."

"'It's a vacuum cleaner' ... the implication [being] a bike is a tool, something that does the job of getting you from one place to the next - not something to pamper and obsess over." Don't know that I entirely agree with that; maybe another point of departure between me and the cycle chic folk.

"A cardboard cutout of MBTA officer David Silen has helped cut bike thefts by 67 percent."

"Maybe it's inevitable that communication networks will one day permeate every canyon and mountaintop, but as long as I'm alive, I hope that no matter the risk, I will more often feel the sting of campfire smoke in my eyes than the strain of squinting at a screen."

"About two to three miles is the sweet spot where it really can be more efficient and faster to take a bike."

"PCH was no longer the terrifying alley of death it had been before."

"We need to design communities that encourage physically active kids. Our kids need to be able to walk, bicycle, and get physical activity where they live, in their communities. They need to be safe while doing so too."

With the exceedingly humid weather we have been experiencing the past couple weeks, I have been following this old trick, Cool Hands Mike, at the old Claremont Cyclist.

And with that above mentioned humidity in mind, congratulations are in order for Trisha, at Lets Go Ride A Bike, for completing her first metric century. Tennessee, Kentucky, August - three words that combined will have you thinking humidity.