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This page is a Daily Archive of entries for Tuesday, November 11, 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
With one historic building in shambles from a raging inferno, now seems an appropriate time to deliver the news about another piece of infrastructure, albeit virtual, in downtown Champaign. While the city center has had a homepage for quite sometime, Champaign city planner T.J. Blakeman and Volition recruiter Kevin Fanning recently collaborated to update and tighten up www.downtownchampaign.com.
The end result is a much more quality visit — with news items about development, living spaces, entertainment, restaurants and the like — that resembles a trend of ease within website navigation.
Like what you see? Think something is missing? Go here to let them know.
If you think of the Champaign-Urbana bike community as a large, multi-tendrilled beast, as I like to, then Pat Schmitz has that sucker covered from head-to-toe as well as anyone I know. Schmitz, a graduate student in Plant Biology by day, spends his free time on a diverse array of bike-related endeavors. You may have seen him on his ultra-long kids' bike or tall bike during Critical Mass, riding in a chariot race around the quad or working as a bicycling advocate for ChampaignCountyBikes.org.
I caught up with Pat before we were set to play a game of bike polo in the Krannert parking garage. After the jump, hear his thoughts on freak bikes, fixed gears, and building trailers.
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