The celebration service this morning was once again excellent. Rev. Jerry Dykstra spoke on the topic of taking action towards creating a world with a greater sense of justice. That while we believe God is powerful enough to make those changes, we’re in this world with the capability to take steps in that direction ourselves.

We all rode in to the service on our bikes this morning which is the first time we’ve had 140+ people all together within a few hundred meters. I filmed the following video, I was only a third of the way back so tried to film over my back by got a lot of my helmet and two people. Unfortunately it was a “one take only” kind of production…

The news on my bike… Still riding with the same bent hanger. The so called “Cervelo Dealer” here is not so much of a cervelo dealer as a cervelo seller. Their drawer with cervelo parts consisted of one spare seat-post. I was thoroughly unimpressed. I’ve put some feelers out to try and track one down and have it shipped to me. I have a full range of gears at the moment but there is potential that it will break at some point now if I stress it again. We’re setting up for 2 weeks where one of our main sources of entertainment while on the road is city line sprints (definition below) and they’re not particularily gentle on components.

City Line Sprint – sitē līn sprĭnt:
A race that spontaneously occurs when riding in a group. Points are awarded for the first rider for any sign that introduces the boundary to a town, county or state. Riders may or may not see the sign, occasionaly suspicion of a sign initiates a sprint race. In theory there is a point distribution and the points are tallied for the day, typically however, no-one bothers to keep track.