Orleans parade of lights (aka Christmas parade)

Well it looks like now I have learned how to do a few things like add a link to my photos I am at it again. Post number two for 2009, will do more but order is well past when it happened. Tonight was the night for lights in a Christmas parade in the bedroom community of Ottawa called Orleans. It is a mid to large suburb of nearly 125,000 people. The parade follows the route called the heart of Orleans aka main street. Here is the parade route. A few of us met at my house to setup our recumbents for the parade, us being HPVOoO. Human Powered Operators of Ottawa is our mostly parade riding group. The recumbents in attendance, a Catrike, Trice and Sun EZ-3 for the three wheelers. A BikeE, Action Bent and Sun EZ-1 for the two wheeler recumbents. And lastly the coup de grace, a tall bike. More photos will be added when the other get their photos linked to me.

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Wow, sure did let a lot of time pass between blogs

Hey it sure has been a long time since the last post. I think I will go back to my photos and see where I would like to start from. Off the top of my head, I see that I went to Indy to see the North American Hand Made Bicycles show. The photos in my link show most of the bicycle makers in North America in the customizing bicycle business.

Here is link to the downtown parts of Indy, Monument circle I really enjoyed walking around the center of town, it was nice to see the buildings curve around monument circle. Map of downtown Indy

And then the bicycle show in the best convention center I have laid eyes on. The show had a lot of bicycles and builders to photograph. Beginning with, things that make you go hmmm . And some of the world's fastest human powering a vehicle. Sam Whittingham with his hand made frames called, naked bicycles And some nice looking Bilenky frames.


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