Life On Two Wheels

Feeling my way around...

Learning my way around Typepad and working to get more links up. I have listed all of the bike shops I can think of. If I am missing your favorite shop in the Columbus Metro, let me know and I will be sure to add to it. 

This is a bike friendly business map below thats pretty much open source. Feel free to add to this if you find a business that is pretty friendly to two wheels. This could include bike parking (racks or allowing bikes inside), bike specials or discounts, location adjacent to the trail-ways and other bike friendly roads. If you can't figure out Google Maps, just let forward the information and I'll add it. 

Bike Friendly Columbus Businesses

I also have an account at Bikely and will be adding routes as I create and use them. Bikely is a great tool, utilizing Google Maps but allowing you to route onto the trail-ways and other off road routes.

Just search "lifeontwowheels" at Bikely to find the routes I have added.

Back in action!

After a long hiatus, Lifeontwowheels returns. A long summer of work, a move and a career change have left me with little time over the last few months to write here. I am hoping to change that over the next few months as I continue to adapt and settle in. The blog will make some changes-notably I am now posting at Type Pad and hope to improve the design shortly. 

I made the decision toward the end of August to leave my state job (which included personal, sick and vacation time), a very decent pay rate and state retirement in order to live the lifestyle I wanted to. Essentially that boils down to poor, starving college student who is now working as a lifeguard at barely over minimum wage. And I love it. Am I crazy? Yes. I am also young, stupid and (most importantly) unattached which allows me to make such a dramatic change. 

The car is listed on Craigslist, with little success in selling it, so far. Hopefully after the election, people may be a bit encouraged to make a major purchase. 

Some of my planned future posts will include:

• -Winter Cycling On The Cheap
• -The Perfect Urban Bike? 
• - Columbus Goes (Even More) Progressive 

Once again, my goal here is simple: to provide positive encouragement to those looking for an alternative in a car-centric society.