Last week in the 2012 Commuter Cycling Century Challenge, a member lamented that he let his wife and the weatherman talk him out of commuting one day. “I think I need to take some lessons from some of you diehards and man-up,” he said. As one of the diehards, I felt I had to reply. [...]
Fridays have become my de facto rest day. I guess it’s actually rest days I hate. I completely get how important they are. I know that if I don’t take at least one rest day a week my legs will explode and fall off. Then I’ll need three rest days in a row. But that [...]
I need new cycling shorts. I have a pair of 2006 model Pearl Izumi Attack shorts I bought in 2007. They’re getting a little thin. Last autumn I bought a new pair of 2010 model Pearl Izumi Attack shorts at the LBS on their end-of-season sale. But of course they’ve “improved” them and I don’t [...]
I set out to Scottsville at noontime with the intention of joining up with the RBC for ride #106, a loop from Scottsville to Avon along both sides of the river. A 31-mile ride with a 30-mile out-and-back would have put me right in the neighborhood of the first metric of the year. Miscalculation 1 [...]
Somewhere along the line we’ll need to pay for all this. The past week was fantastic for early March. It was the first four bikes, four-day workweek of the year. We did the long loop twice—once dead into winds sustained in the 20s and gusting to the 30s. My glutes killed me the next day [...]
This has been a very challenging winter, and in a very surprising way. I had thought a mild winter would be easy to cruise through. But I mess the challenges of an ordinary winter. My snow tires didn’t go on until nearly New Year’s, they came off a couple of weeks later, went back on [...]
I don’t often go so long between entries here. I didn’t plan this hiatus. It just happened. After 14 years at this, I think I deserve a break every now and again. Once upon a time a disappearance like this would have been cause for concern. If you’ve felt concern, my apologies. The truth is, [...]
Late afternoon Sunday, I’d just put away the mop and returned the furniture to its proper locations after a weekend of mainly chores. I say mainly because I can’t for the life of me remember much about yesterday. I remember that I dusted then swept the floors in preparation for mopping today, and I goofed [...]
I’ve spent the whole of October working on my bike fit. At the start of the month I had four bikes that each fit me slightly differently. If I rode any given bike for several days, everything was wonderful. But when I’d change to another, different groups of leg muscles would come into play, groups [...]
The Earth’s circumference measured over the poles is 24,859.82 miles. Measured at the equator, it’s 24,901.55 miles. While checking my stats on BikeJournal today, my total since about six weeks after I got my first bike is 24,997 miles. So sometime last week, I completed my first lap of the Earth. There were no flags [...]
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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
I don’t ride to save the environment, auto fuel, money or even to get exercise. I ride because I enjoy it and as a consequence, I get the benefit of the other things.—Charles Vail
What I need is a tandem, a squash racquet and a daring & ruthless accomplice. Is anyone in?—Chris L
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.—Peter Golkin
If one is going to be hedonistic and NOT actually in Jamaica, well bicycles ain’t such a bad way to go.—PansyPalmetto
Skilled city cyclists move through traffic like gazelles through a field of fat cows.—JoeyBike
Biking isn’t a sport because anybody can do it. I can bike, you can bike. For goodness sakes, my mother can bike! You don’t see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated, do you?—jack002
Bicycles move with the flow of the Earth—Nikki Giovanni
Let’s have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle—US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Putting slicks on a mountain bike is like putting a dress on your best friend Bob. He still won’t look like a woman, and he won’t ride like one either.—Platypius
They’re just bikes. Ride ’em in the rain, salt, snow and crap to fully appreciate them.—Mike Zanconato
One of the best things about bicycle commuting is that it can mitigate the displeasure of having to go to work.—BikeSnobNYC
When you approach an intersection think of the cars as affectionate cats that are going to try to rub themselves against you.—BikeSnobNYC
It’s like bikes. Give yourself a budget. Then double it.—grscha
Rule 9: If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.—The Rules