LBC is collaborating with Port of Long Beach
On October 2, 2010 we will be hosting several bike related activities at Green Port Festival. The festival is an open house for Long Beach residents to see what goes on within the Port. Exhibits, displays, train, bike and boat tours, plus food and entertainment will be in store for attendants! and it’s all FREE! To be as ‘green’ as possible, POLB is asking everyone to walk, bike or bus into the event. That’s we we come in! We will be offering bike tours into the port from the Promenade near ocean and Pine , we will also be guides for the inner port tour and offering free bike valet once you are ready to park it for a while! Join us!
look! It’s Travis! Join him again this year for the inner port tour
Thanks Travis, glad you are on board!
That photo presents us with a Valuable Opportunity. Using it, we can compare the length of his Beard in the Present Day with its length One Year Hence, and thus Objectively and Scientifically verify the Growth over a Year; with this datum in Hand, we can then Compare it to the Average Beard Growth among Gentlemen of Mr. Bos’s Age.
It is my Hypothesis that Cycling causes ones Beard to Grow at an Accelerated Rate due to the Forces of Wind acting upon the Strands of Hair, and in Turn, the Follicles of the facial area. Will it turn out to be True? Only Time, and the Rigorous and Precise Application of the Scientific Method, will Tell.
Lee, your humor is fantastic! Thank you for the great belly laugh : ) I needed it!
Lee, bmckeever thinks you were just being humorous. No, I can see that you are right on and completely serious. It may be, however, that a long beard is not hair growth caused by cycling in itself, but rather by beard hair STRETCHING.
I have noticed that after installing a bell on my bicycle, my left thumb responded to the bell by STRETCHING out just slightly. Not enough for anyone else to notice, perhaps, yet enough for ME to notice. I can hear it in the way the bell sounds now compared to, say, last year.
It is not too much of a STRETCH to suggest that the wonderfully long beard we see dangling from Travis’ face this year is the same shorter beard of last year, just STRETCHED.
Another factor worth study concerns wind direction. Given that it is now Established Fact that wind has some type of relationship with beard length, and that cycling on windy days seems to cause cyclists to have even longer beards, I have noticed that on days when Travis cycles INTO the wind his beard hairs ends up being longer than when he cycles WITH the wind. This likely supports Lee’s hypothesis about the Forces of Wind on Hair Strands and Follicles.
I am glad that the Long Beach Cyclists web page not only includes announcements about cool rides and events, and is a voice for urban cycling advocacy and traffic safety, but also that it includes this type of High-Level, Scientific Discourse.
When we see Travis on October 2nd at the Green Port Fest, I think we should ask Travis if he doesn’t mind if each one of us take turns tugging at his beard to find out, once and for all, if beard length is due to cycling, or to wind, or to other factors not yet contemplated here.
Signed, Michael.
P.S, I have cycled for numerous decades, and I observe that over the last decade my own beard becomes increasingly white. Is this because cycling causes beards to become white? I suppose I should have posed the question when I took the Traffic Safety 101 course some years ago—back when my beard still had more color to it.