Bike Pictures

I bought this twenty year-old Italian road bike in December.
Here it is under a bridge in Kokkola.
The saying in French means something like:
"One is not born a woman; one becomes one."
Or: "Women aren't born; they become."

This is a familiar sight for Ely people: late season snow.
We had it here too, but with 16 - 20 hours of daylight,
it would be difficult for anything to accumulate.

It is easy and free to take bikes on the Helsinki metro,
and is allowed during non-rush hour times.

We rode our bikes one day on a "tour des museums"
in Central Ostrobothnia.
The meteorite museum in Lappajärvi shows how the very deep lake
was formed by the impact of a meteorite 73million years ago.
Here is the ski factory museum in Vimpeli;
the same complex also has a museum dedicated to Finnish baseball, "pesäpallo."

My road bike got a flat tire, so I rode my one-speed trusty rusty bike
for three days while I learned how to repair a sew-up tire.