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 [...]
The Ten Parks Tour remains my favorite ride in the nearly 400 mapped rides in the Rochester Bicycling Club’s mapset. It’s a ride I fell in love with the first time I rode it, and since then, I’ve made it my own, leading the ride twice a year. And I didn’t want to ride it [...]
Here are a couple of stories I’ve collected at work recently Hey library guy! For the first few months after I switched branches to Arnett a couple of years ago, I paid a lot of attention to the patron names and addresses at check-out so I could learn the regulars names and get a feel [...]
Jeeves and I had just a splendid time yesterday on the Highlander Cycle Tour. And I’m so glad we did that hilly 70-miler last weekend. Otherwise I think I wouldn’t have made it. We did the 70-mile cut of the Corkscrew Century. With a detour around a stretch of milled pavement, we finished 74.23 miles [...]
I went out for hill repeats on my hills training route this afternoon. The westerly winds were a little strong and gusty, so I decided to do it in reverse order, starting from Mt Hope Cemetery and working my way east to Rich’s Dugway. Ever since getting locked in the cemetery last year, I avoid [...]
We stared in open-mouthed astonishment at the man gesticulating wildly towards us and emitting vocalizations that alternated between honking and sort of sneezing sounds. Finally he gave up. “Nobody here speaks French?” Oh. It was supposed to be French that he was yelling at us. Who knew? We were about ten very hot, very tired [...]
Having taken it easy since returning from my vacation in Canada, today I started my official training for the Highlander Cycle Tour. The Highlander is billed as the toughest century in the east, with courses ranging up to the 115-mile “Death Before Dismount” with 11,000 feet of climbing. [ MapMyRide ] I’ve actively avoided the Highlander in [...]
Today’s mailbag brings… Hi Bruce: A while back you reported that you had bought some Velocity A23 wheels and liked ‘em quite a bit. I’m looking to get a set of their Helios wheels and was wondering how the A23’s were holding up. Rob Hi Rob! Actually, I own three sets of wheels with Velocity [...]
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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