Our Redwood City location is normally closed on Sundays, but we’ll be here for you the Sunday before Christmas, smiling and cheerful and helping you with new bikes and cool stuff for presents & stocking stuffers while it’s nasty & raining outside. We’re hoping it’s nice, but the long-range weather forecast presently doesn’t know nice.

We’ll also have our Los Altos store open on Monday (they’re normally closed Mondays & open Sundays).

What will be on sale? All Jackets, Jerseys, Shorts, Arm & Leg Warmers and most other things we’d call “apparel” (but not shoes or sunglasses or helmets) are 20% off regular price. We’ll have some extra-special further markdowns on closeout bikes too. And who knows what else? I’ll be sending out an email flyer shortly.

No, you can’t test ride a bike in the rain, but we’ll have trainers set up and make sure everything fits just right. Come in and say hi and keep us company! Oh, and if you’ve got odd-sized feet, either really small (preferably women’s) or a guy with wide size 13 monsters, we’ve got a $50 sidi closeout sale going on.

Sometimes we try to be “thankful” for something at Thanksgiving out of rote. It’s just something we’re supposed to do, and we search for the usual, the mean on the table, those who prepared it, the roof over our heads, whatever. I don’t want to trivialize Thanksgiving too much, but sometimes it’s more of a Hallmark Holiday than it should be.

But not today. Because today, Kevin got out on his first bike ride. After I did the morning 58 miles with Claude, Kevin suited up and we did a 24 mile version of the extended “loop” through Woodside & Portola Valley. First time for Kevin on a bike in, what, 9 weeks or so? And just 4 days after having his kidney stent removed, and 2 days after getting off the all-too-powerful pain meds. He did impressively well! We didn’t push it hard, but he was riding at a near-normal pace, complaining only about a bit of pain when he breathed, partly due to the cold (although it wasn’t that cold this afternoon, around 51 degrees or so) and partly due to getting over quite a bit of congestion caused by his meds (narcotics depress respiratory activity, which can cause the lungs to congest, as his certainly did).

So Saturday you may see him working again at the shop, and Monday he’ll be back at school again (which, just like his cycling, will be after a 9-week absence). This is something we are truly thankful for.