May is National Bike Month. National Bike Week is next week, May 17–21. Here in R-Town, that conflicts with the Lilac Festival, so the Rochester Bike Week begins next Friday, May 21 on National Bike-to-Work Day. This, of course, is one of my days off, but for me, every workday is bike-to-work day, so I [...]
There’s a thread on one of the forums I frequent, the subject is something along the lines of “Does anyone else get a sense of satisfaction from wearing out components?” At 9,200 miles and after three Rochester winters, I’m in the middle of replacing most of the Portland’s drivetrain because I’ve worn it out. I [...]
It’s late morning on a Sunday in early May, and there’s snow in the air. It’s too warm for it to stick to anything, but there’s snow flying around in the winds outside my window. It’s days like today that really make me feel grateful for cycling to work during the week. Weekdays this spring [...]
This morning while loading the panniers on the Portland, I discovered I’d forgotten to buy apples over the weekend. So I threw the grocery panniers on Yellow Bike, grabbed my lock and bungees and we went grocery shopping. It’s nice having multiple bikes for these unexpected rides. I didn’t have to remove the commuting panniers [...]
The official announcement isn’t until next week, but the D&C reports tonight that the Tour de New York is a go this coming August. Five days of racing begin downtown on Saturday August 7 with the Rochester Twilight Criterium, followed by Individual Time Trials on Sunday along Lake Ontario. The tour continues with three road [...]
Mom Nature is a tease. We get a little taste of a nice spring—a few rainy days a bit early to be called April Showers—then WHAM! She lets loose with a bit of July. In March and the first days of April. This past week’s weather has been glorious. Monday and Tuesday were nice. Very [...]
Rest days work. After Friday’s rest day, I was up early and out the door at sunrise for the long loop to work. I took Yellow Bike and we had a really nice ride, watching the sun rise on a day that had been forecast as cloudy was a nice little bonus. Along the way, [...]
It’s a beautiful day outside—sunny, 65, a little on the breezy side, about the same as yesterday. It’s a great day for a bike ride, but I’m pooped. I keep forgetting that despite riding straight through the winter, I have to retrain for spring just like everyone else. Yesterday alone I rode more miles in [...]
An exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYCMay 12–August 15, 2010Exhibition web page I’m thinking this might be a good reason to visit NYC. And now that I have weekends off… Custom bicycle building involves master metalwork: bending, welding, carving and wrapping steel, titanium, aluminum and carbon. A graphic artist’s eye is required [...]
Rochester Bicycling Club member and Java programmer, Onno, has released Club Rides, an iPhone app for keeping up with the club’s activities and tracking your rides. It’s customizable for any club, but comes by default set up for the RBC. BTW, the club’s kick-off event for 2010 is tomorrow, Saturday March 13. We meet at [...]
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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