One of the big seasonal things around here is looking at the Christmas lights on Christmas Tree Lane. Martin organized a crew to ride the buscycle to the event. I signed up. He wanted some people to show up early to decorate the buscycle for the event. He had plenty of neon glow wire, and others brought things like Christmas trees and ornaments. By the time we started pedaling our ride was as tricked out as any of the lawns.

Usually when the buscycle does something it's just the buscycle. This time there was also a pair of exotic vehicles in the caravan, and a crew of bicycle escorts.

Unwheeldy, the one with the nine foot diameter wheels, was easy to pedal but difficult to steer. Each wheel is pedaled by one of the riders, so it steers like a tank. What this means is to go straight forward both riders have to pedal at the same general speed. I found out about the pitfalls of this by taking a turn riding it.

I wanted to get a good side view shot of the buscycle, from pedaling unwheeldy. This is the best one I got before the oops where I accidentally broke one of the spokes on the big wheel when it got tangled with the pedals of the buscycle. After that I got demoted to buscycle pedaler for the rest of the evening.

When we got to Christmas Tree Lane we couldn't just go down it. A water main had broken, so we had to go around to the other end and backtrack to see the lights. To make a long story short, we did that. It took a lot of pedaling.

On the way home we stopped to sing happy birthday for the guy in the red coat.

That's the moon peeking out from between the glow wire strands above me as I pedaled.