Skirts and Geeks - 3rd Friday Commute

The title might make more sense if it were Skirts and Greeks, or even Togas and Greeks, but Skirts and Geeks is more accurate, if not rather ... um, intriguing?

Most of the Geeks are not in Skirts, although some may be, but there's a different reason that Skirts and Geeks go together on bicycles.

The 3rd Friday Commute is coming up and we'll be following our monthly ritual of making other people wish they were having as much fun as us: Meet in Decatur at the Square, ride a few miles toward Midtown/Downtown, stop along the way at a breakfast spot with good bike parking, refill our tanks (28 miles per biscuit), and -- leaving nothing to chance -- a new part of the ritual: pre-planned discussion topics.

Here's where we get to the Skirts and the Geeks.

At the October Bike Commuter Breakfast we discussed "What Women Want (from cycling)". The discussion was purely conjectural since no women were present. For Friday's breakfast, we should have some women to help us out. If not, we may have to rely on this post from a fellow Georgia blogger Sweet Georgia Brown. So far, we've got at least one woman cyclist sharing her thoughts about getting "more skirts" on bicycles, and we hope to pick up a few more by discussing what women want.

Another proposed topic is something a few of us have been knocking around for several months. We call ourselves the Atlanta Bike Geeks and look for opportunities to help cyclists using technology and more specifically, computer technology. We're Geeks who ride bikes, and some of us do wear skirts. We had proposed to discuss how technology could help the cycling community. It was yesterday however, that I received an email about how Atlanta is working to become the most digitally mapped city in the US.

Running and cycling around with GPS's so we can create an open-source map is the cool sort of thing that gets a geek excited. Better than skirts. (But maybe not better than skirts on bikes.)