Lost in OK

Don’t know how I missed this one . . .

A cyclist has been killed here in Oklahoma City tonight.  From NewsOK.com:

About 9:15 p.m., James Smith II, 60, was riding southbound on his bicycle in the outside lane of N Rockwell Avenue near the Northwest Expressway when he made a sharp left turn, Holland said. The minivan was driving behind Smith and its driver could not stop in time or avoid him, and Smith hit the windshield and was then run over.

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For those who love hills, the Tour of the Wichitas has been scheduled for May 2nd.  From the website:

A beautiful ride through Ft. Sill and the Wichita Mountains. You will be leaving the Museum of the Great Plains at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and riding either 2,10, 40, 50 or 60 miles through some of the most beautiful scenery in Oklahoma. We will also have a historic route by the Ft. Sill Museum and some of the most important historical properties at Ft. Sill. The longer rides will have a water stop at the Visitors Center in the refuge. You can pause here and learn about the make up of the refuge along with what types of animals it supports. Also the location of the hiking trails and fishing lakes. From the Visitors Center you may ride back by Mt. Scott through Medicine Park, or on a breathtaking downhill that will pass the Meers Restaurant and loop around Lake Lawtonka back to Lawton. This is a smell the roses ride. Take your time, look around and enjoy!

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So, it’s been a long and dull week without the ability for me to ride (darn skinny wheels).  After work, I decided to do an automotive run along the lake bike trails to see how the ice had cleared.  Overall it looks really good which is as I expected.  For those of you who ride out to Overholser to start their rides, I noticed quite a bit of remaining slush at the bottom of the last hill coming into the lake on 16th street.  The trail itself is in fine shape and I didn’t notice any area of standing water that might be frozen up tomorrow morning.  I can however now personally confirm that the old Route 66 bridge is very much closed.  Let’s hope that they can reopen it soon.

I just ran into an irritating little problem with using TryParse when assigning to nullable object.  The following is the code I was using to assign a value from a ASP.NET dropdown list to a nullable Int32 variable:

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If there has ever been any doubt that man is an irony making animal, then this should dispel it:

It’s amazing that people are so terrified about being offended that they run for cover the moment a single one of their convictions is challenged.  Just makes me smile.

Thanks to Jessica over at ¿Dónde está la Biblioteca?

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The route for Freewheel crosses the western side of the state this year.  The itinerary is as follows:

• Saturday, June 6th -  Duncan
• Sunday, June 7th – Anadarko
• Monday, June 8th – Cordell
• Tuesday, June 9th – Cheyenne
• Wednesday, June 10th – Thomas
• Thursday, June 11th – Fairview
• Friday, June 12th – Alva
• Saturday, June 13th – Kiowa, KS

Registration begins the second week of February and will be $110 for the full week.  I can’t wait for June to get here!

Sorry, it’s been busy around the office as of late and this site has been slower to get started than I had ever imagined, but I’ve got several posts to make and should be able to get started on the rest of the work soon.

Discover Oklahoma recently aired a piece about the joys of Freewheel.  Watch the whole piece below:

Norman is improving and expanding the bicycle routes throughout the city.  Hopefully Oklahoma City will start improving the street routes as well.  I’d love to see a route going down to Norman and out to Lake Thunderbird for a great camping weekend.

Yellow “Share the Road” signs to urge motorists and bicyclists to coexist peacefully and safely will be popping up around town as the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee works to make roads safer for both.

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