Bancroft Ave.:

As we hit Bancroft Avenue, a busy four-lane road that has a bike lane, we felt the unrelenting damage of urban renewal. Bordering the avenue are primarily new low-rise housing developments, with a scattering of strip malls. All in all, the route was very inhumane; we saw very few pedestrians and no cars stopped to interact with us at all.

To satisfy our hunger, we stopped along the way at a taco truck that was parked in an auto parts store. We weren’t sure how long it would take us to reach the farmers market and what kind of food they might have available there, so we had some gooey quesadillas. People stared at our rig, but no one asked any questions.

After a while, two young boys rode along side us on their bikes; they asked us all kinds of questions about our tandem. Then one of them kept asking us, "Hey, can you do a willy, can you?" We weren't sure what he meant until he zoomed out in front of us and popped a wheelie! He and is friend rode with us for a couple of blocks, weaving through traffic and doing crazy tricks, and then turned off one of the side streets.