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 [...]
Today Google Maps introduced a cycling choice for routing in 150 cities in the US. R-Town is one of them. Playing around with it this morning, it frequently picks different routes than I typically use. It seems to favor side streets and turns more frequently, where I generally prefer a more direct route. However, it [...]
Today’s ride doesn’t look like much from the numbers, but for me, it was a resounding success. Eleven-and-a-half miles, around 45 minutes, average speed of just under 15 MPH. But it included nearly 1,300 feet of climbing in five repeats of Rich’s Dugway. My goal was three, and I hoped for four. Five had me [...]
It was really hard, staying indoors and off the bikes today. The first brush of 40° on a sunny day sure was tempting, but I needed a rest. Badly. The new commute to the Arnett Branch is about twice the distance as the the ride to Sully Branch, and three times the distance as the [...]
I picked up my order from Ribble Cycles UK yesterday. On the forums there have been several raves recently about the pricing and service from Ribble. I’m a little tapped right now, so saving a few bucks seemed like a good idea. The prices were amazing. I could barely contain myself. Much of it has [...]
Yesterday the roads dried sufficiently that I could test ride that bike I wrote about last week without feeling guilty for riding a steel bike in the salt, or returning a dirty bike if I decided I wouldn’t buy it. So I stopped by Towner’s Bike Shop on the way home and test rode it. [...]
New job and new bike. It’s a longer piece, but you’ll be done before either one happens. New job Problem One: I’ve wanted more hours at work ever since I became a clerk four years ago. I’m scheduled for only 12 hours a week at Winton Branch, and four hours a week at Sully Branch. [...]
The past week or ten days or so have been wonderful, weatherwise for R-Town in January. We’ve had sun on several days, highs above freezing on most of them, and other than a dusting last Tuesday morning, no snow. Riding the studs on the Portland this year hasn’t been quite the effort as other years. [...]
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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