Nearly every season I see Eastern Box Tortoises on & around our airport track, working their way either from the creek or to the creek or between creeks. I take them as signs from the cycling Muse that mine is not an unworthy effort. I’ve only though seen 2 dung-beetles tho – one 6 years ago (I had no clue what it was nor what it was doing) & the other just today. The unfortunate metaphor is they constantly mess with other’s shit; the unvarnished truth is they gather poop to feed their young. More than rather laudable considering what we have done to our economy.
Beyond the dung-beetle I noted 5 One-Speeders today & 2 actual Fixies. I thought I knew every non-traditional cyclist active here but I suppose our population growth will make for some surprises. With the winds between storms there was no simple pedaling for anyone out there but my thesis that 10-Speeders are slower into the wind than are one-speeders gets routinely demonstrated. Our chain-bight stays constant necessarily while those with dérailleurs modify their bight to maintain their cadence.
Rolling our own matter toward our own ends.
Ecbatan 