Minneapolis just can’t have enough bike celebrations. There was the bike center grand opening, the opening of the Sabo bike bridge, the naming ceremony for the Sabo bike bridge, and now, this Sunday, Global Bike Day, which includes a ribbon-cutting for a new access ramp to the Midtown Greenway. (Click here for info on the day’s events.)

Sunday’s activities include a bicycle haiku — or baiku — contest. (Organizers describe baiku as “an ancient Japanese poetry form about bicycles.”) According to an e-mail I received, entrants must write their baikus on a slip of paper and drop them into a box at the event by 4 p.m. Sunday, and the winner gets a bicycle.

Roadguy does not have a bicycle to give away, but if your brain has been itching to write a 5-7-5 poem about bicycling, please do offer it below. (Keep in mind that Roadguy cannot be held responsible if someone steals your baiku off the web and enters it in the actual contest. He would never condone such behavior, even though he himself could use a new bike.)

Here’s a baiku to start:

My resolution
To bike to work at least once
Remains unfulfilled

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