IndyStar article about INDYCOG regular, Steve "Tool" Allen

Daniel Lee just dropped a story over at the IndyStar about our good pal, Tool. It's an interesting profile about his cycling and commuting habits.

Steve Allen opens his garage door at his Northside Indianapolis house just before sunrise and prepares for one of those rituals of parenthood: taking his 6-year-old daughter, Emma, to school.

Only this is a morning commute with a two-wheeled twist.

Allen uses a bicycle -- actually one of his five bicycles -- for almost all of his daily transportation needs. He rides year-round in rain or snow, hot or cold.

Emma, dressed in her plaid-skirt school uniform, straps on her helmet and hops into the back of a yellow bike trailer. Allen, donning his own helmet, covers her with a blanket to guard from the morning chill and then mounts his Bianchi bicycle.

Allen, his bike and trailer shine and blink with a half-dozen lights and blinkers. "It looks like a Mardi Gras float," he quipped.

Full story here.

Check it out, and while you're there, help out the comments section. It can get rough over there on bicycles.

P.S. Thanks to Daniel for the INDYCOG mention!

Why We Ride: Tool

Name: TOOL

Age: 43

Main Squeezes: RoGeR / Epic

Local shops: Joes / GreyGoat

Why I ride: I ride because I always have. I always will. I have 30 years worth of stories of transporting my self most everywhere I go by bike. You have all heard them..I'm sorry if I have bored anyone to tears.

Indy in a sentence: Indy is quickly becoming a place I can tell people I am from, with pride...

(This week's Why We Ride brought to you by our sponsors at Werther's. Photo taken at the Momentum Magazine ArtBike! photobooth.)