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[roadrunnertwice]

Via Peace Coffee's Facebook links (via my college buddy Julia), it looks like Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis, MN the #1 bike city in the country. Fuck yeah, way to go City of Lakes! My beloved City of Roses pulled in in no. 2, it looks like, which I am fine with. My adopted hometowns own the top two, that is badass any way you slice it. (Confidential to Portlandia: STEP IT UP)

SO! We got any Minneapolitans in the house?

(Also, a random mention in the article seems to imply that the Grease Pit did in fact get re-established at some point, which does my heart no end of good.)

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[aedifica]

Woohoo! Yep, I'm in Mpls. And the Grease Pit is right next to that one small theatre whose name I'm blanking on. (I pass it on the way to one of my usual LBSes, Freewheel Cycle.)

[roadrunnertwice]

The Bedlam? (*googles*) Oh hurray, they moved back in with them! Or near, or something. And they have windows now!

They used to be in the Bedlam's basement at the old location, and the way I remember it from '06 or '07 was that the theatre wasn't sure whether they had space for the Grease Pit at their new digs, and I never heard any more about it before I moved.

[aedifica]

Yes, it's the Bedlam, thank you!

P.S. And it's just off one of the tributaries to the Midtown Greenway bike path--seems like it must be a good location for a bike place!

[darkemeralds]

Well, Portland can't be "it" every year, and Minneapolis is always right up there in the lists. I was in Minneapolis last summer and I sure felt right at home!

Portlandia is stepping it up, though: Mayor Sam just found $20M "seed money" to start funding the Bike Plan. Of course, it will probably get him voted out of office, if not recalled, but I thought it was a bold move. Someone's gotta say that in hard economic times, encouraging cheap-to-free transportation makes sense.