Your Next Elevator Trip…

Most of the time I’m pretty anonymous when riding around town on my bikes. There aren’t a lot of Rivs in Honolulu so they do stand out, but truthfully most folks don’t pay much attention. Sometimes, however, you run into a bunch of folks that do…
On the last Friday of the month here in Honolulu we have a semi-organized holoholo ride (holoholo loosely translates to ‘going out no place in particular for fun’ usually driving, riding, whatevahs). Think Critical Mass without either the critical or the mass and leavened with Aloha:
“Holoholo Ride takes place every last Friday of the month and is open to anyone who wishes to join a fun, cycling, law conscious group of cycling enthusiasts for a cruise around Honolulu. The route starts at the State Capitol and ends at the Eat The Streets Food Truck event.”
Back to the story…I’d headed out after work for my own holoholo ride, just taking in the sights, grabbing a bite, having coffee, viewing the waterfront, that sort of thing and ended up at our local Eat the Street monthly event. Basically it’s a monthly street food event. Lot’s of folks attend.
Well being Bike Month our local bike org (hbl.org) had set up a bicycle valet service.
I cruised by for some dinner and to visit a friend working the valet service when the Holoholo Ride folks showed up. They had a great collection of sensible bikes for the most part with fenders, lights, baskets, and such, along with the requisite fixies and such.
They saw my Hunqapillar and…well I wasn’t so anonymous anymore. I spent a good twenty minutes showing off the bike and answering questions, and even got photographed by a fellow named Sau who has a blog of bikey stuff. You can see his photos of my bike on his blog, You Are Only As Fast As Your Next Elevator Trip.
I’m including them here…linked to Sau’s blog, but you should really go check out all his great images of the local scene.

[All photos ©Sau Hsu 2013]
One of the guys (and it was a mixed crowd) whose name I don’t recall (sorry), says he’ll be getting Hillbourne sometime this year and asked what I thought of them. As I almost got one myself but opted for the Hunq I just had to say go for it.
Mostly the folks on the ride were in their 20s and 30s so it looks like lugged steel has a great future.
I think I may have promised to show up at the next ride on my Quickbeam. 🙂