It’s tough not to have fun on the Tuesday Night Urban Assault ride. Even tougher when one rider shows up in the worst drag I ever did see, and another is in a white lab coat that says Medical Examiner, and is towing a coffin on his BOB trailer.
Across the street from the Adams [...]
Now with extra crit loops!
Today was the first decent weather since I did that 73 miler with bikerjohn three weeks ago today. Fifty-five to 60°F, gorgeous sunshine.
I have all sorts of stuff I should have done instead—client stuff, billing, clean the apartment, laundry, phone calls, letters to write… But I played hookey instead. [...]
Added some links to the side menu the other day. Some for my convenience, some to share.
Bike shit
After riding through the mud on this week’s TNUA ride, I finally got around to trying the “shake it up in a pop bottle with some degreaser” method of chain cleaning. It worked great. Except [...]
The two blocks east of Kodak Office (world headquarters of Eastman Kodak Company), between State Street and the river gorge, used to be called Brown’s Race. It was so named because a guy named Brown built a mill race, diverting waters from above High Falls for the several water-powered mills that gave the city [...]
The sun broke through this morning between some puffy clouds. It was in the 30s when I left the house. I had to stop at One Hip Chic Optical to get some work done on two of my three pairs of glasses. Tamra was envious that I was out riding and she [...]
it rained all night last night and all day today. A light, but steady rain. Enough that the ground is saturated and the puddles are huge. The leaves clogging the storm drains aren’t helping either.
Still, I got a couple of great rides in. Commuting to and from Presbytery was a nice [...]
I’m subbing a couple of shifts at work this week. One of the pages tonight was all excited at closing. He told me how he went out a bought lights for his bike. Since July his parents have dropped him off and picked him up. Suddenly, he’s a bike commuter. [...]
This past Thursday I participated in Staff Exchange at the library. Those of us who signed-up got to spend a half-day in our choice of locations and departments. Naturally, I chose LAS, Library Automation Services.
It rained on Thursday, so I arrived at Central Branch early enough to change my clothes. Unfortunately, [...]
Teaching a course in XHTML and CSS to a group of 12 people is something like herding cats.
The particpants knew each other peripherally, so there was a bit of socialization involved. And the knowledge level between them varied widely. Despite the course descript specifically stating “this is not a ‘how to use your [...]
Interesting is the only word that comes to mind to describe my first time on the Tuesday Night Urban Assault ride.
Two hours, 36 riders, two or three flats, one crash and seemingly endless circles and stairs. At 11.8 MPH average, it qualifies as the slowest ride I’ve ever done. Most of that is [...]
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Someday we’ll all look back on this, and plow right into a parked car.
Just as man evolved from four feet to two, some have evolved from four wheels to two.
Tourers and commuters are a lot alike. Both breeds usually choose a sturdy, yet no-nonsense bike, and both usually have to carry more than your usual OCP roadie. We take tips, tricks, and underground secret information from almost every other type of cyclist, chew it up, and spit out a form of cycling science that manifests itself as a fusion of both basic transportation and recreational riding all at once.—ax0n
You shouldn’t anthropomorphize bikes. They don’t like it when you do that—JustBrowsing
Somewhere on gayforums.net there’s a thread that goes “I just shaved my legs and got some tight lycra shorts. Do you think it would make look like a cyclist or not?”—From yet another “Does wearing lycra make me look gay?” thread on bikeforums.net
I don’t hate cars per se, but the lifestyle they encourage is as lethal and self-destructive as any drug.—Cosmoline
I guess for me it boiled down to a realization that a bike was the right tool for the job. Using a 3,000 pound vehicle move me and my briefcase 2.5 miles to work everyday was like using a steamroller to press my shirts—they'd be wrinkle free, but an iron would be a better choice.—chocula
Starve a terrorist—ride a bike to work. It’s not just good for the environment, it’s good for civilization.—NotAsFat
When all the gasoline runs out, the Priuses are going to be dead on the side of the road right beside the Hummers.
Who is more patriotic, the person who commutes to work on a bike, or the guy who slaps a US flag decal on his SUV that gets 12 miles per gallon?—Jim Caple (ESPN)
I’m on the odd side of now but the right side of history.—Woodog
What’s the point of a bike if you can only ride it on weekends and you can’t even carry anything with you?—madfiNch