Flavor Flav got lucky on reality TV...
Whatever happened to Chuck D?

Where was I... ah yes, Middle Run. Middle Run is an incredibly fun trails system made up of about 20 miles if super fast and twisty singletrack. On the first section of Middle Run trail I met the only other cyclist that I know for the entire day, it was a brief passing. The passing rider was John Thompson, father of Joey Thompson and former race director of the Escape from Granogue race. I figured I would run into a whole bunch of riders I know on this adventure, but I didn?��Ǩ�Ѣt, DE is strange that way. You can be out a all day on a beautiful day and not see a single person on the trails... guess reality TV has a firm grasp on this state.

The American car culture also has a loyal following in Delaware. I don?��Ǩ�Ѣt own a car, I sold my last car about 4 years ago. I sold my last car because it sat in the same place for close to three months without being used, and a friend of mine needed some cheap wheels to get back and forth to work... figured it was a good time to unload it. My work commute is an easy one, I work at home.

I almost always ride my bike to the trails to ride, why wouldn?��Ǩ�Ѣt I? I?��Ǩ�Ѣm going for a bike ride anyway. Most of the riders in Delaware drive their cars to the trailhead to start their ride, I don?��Ǩ�Ѣt understand this. When people find out that I rode my bike to the trail from my house they think I?��Ǩ�Ѣm crazy. The same people who think I?��Ǩ�Ѣm crazy are also are the same people that complain about spending 4 dollars for a gallon of gas. Suckas. The Middle Run trail system is about 10 miles from my house, which is less than a 45 minute bike ride (even on a single-speed MTB). That same 10 mile journey in a car takes about 35 minutes on a quite Sunday morning, the drive can take close to an hour in rush hour traffic. I would much rather spend 45 minutes on a bike than close to an hour sitting in a coffin, in traffic, wasting natural resources and ruining our environment. Yes, a coffin, cars are coffins...