Project Goal One: Bike More and Drive Less.

This is my Trek 1000 roadbike brought out of winter hibernation just in time for this Spring Project. Among Seattle's elite biking culture this generic bicycle, manufactured (born) someplace in the Pacific, doesn't turn many heads unless I'm crashing it into the side of a red toyota pruis. On average a 130 pound bicyclist going 14 miles per hour burns 405 calories. I imagine that since i've adopted this TREK we have burned 475,239 calories together, and eaten pavement on a hanful of occasions. Occording to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, there are roughly 700 cyclist deaths per year, with 90 percent of those people being male. The benefits of riding a bike outweigh the risk of splitting your melon all over the road though.