Posts Tagged ‘bike’
How to salmon
Old man, white hair, 60 degrees, shirt open. Grocery bags on the handlebars. Downhill, 12% grade, wrong way into traffic. Fire engine, sirens, lights, oncoming, didn’t flinch. This man was not a weak fish.
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Tags: bicycle, bike, fire truck, salmon
The new LBS
Oh. Hello. I nearly forgot this was here. Today I’d finally had enough of the slow leak. I had a flat twice a day. I would usually have patched it myself but time for that sort of thing is in short supply with 3-year-olds in the house. So I took my Raleigh to the new […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, lbs, Raleigh, repairs
Every day the worst case
Winter ended months ago. I didn’t ride to work at all in January. Just walking five hundred feet from the house was a chore. It was pretty miserable all around and it lasted forever. Here’s the day in late February when the ice that froze the gate in place melted enough that we could get […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, Kids, twins, worst case
Upright, con’t.
In fairness to Todd, I feel I should clarify my earlier hyperbole. Other riding positions undoubtedly have plenty of usefulness. Even cycling gear has great usefulness*. I own spandex shorts and clipless peals and shoes and a mirror that attaches to the visor on my road helmet. I have no desire to ride 90 miles […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, city, commute, cycling, racing
I bought an ironing board
I brought it home with my bike.
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, ironing board, mall
Upright
Photo by Amsterdamize Fully upright is the best position for cycling. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. They’re only trying to sell you a bike that’s less comfortable in exchange for maybe a tiny percentage of gain in leg-effort or some other power dynamic that you won’t ever consider while you’re actually riding a bike. […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, clothes, suit, upright
It really is. Don’t let the cold fool you. Better still, don’t let everyone around you fool you. You will be called crazy, repeatedly. Here’s what I wore cycling to and from work today with a high of 34 degrees. Same thing I would wear any other day. No special shoes; no pants tucked into […]
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Tags: alpine skiing, bicycle, bike, cold, commuting, cycling, Winter
Riding home tonight, in the dark, I come to an intersection and stop. There’s a guy and his dog in the crosswalk. The opposing traffic is stopped, waiting for him to cross. One of the two lanes of cross traffic is also stopped, waiting to turn right. Only the cross traffic in the opposite lane, […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, commute, crosswalk, old man driver
Oh, corporate America. You do have your ways. One of those ways involves moving me through four spaces in two years, all within a thirty-foot radius. In a 1400-person building. Like a hamster scratching out a path in cedar chips. At least the facilities guys will always have jobs. So I took some things out, […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, canopy, rain, rain cape
Crane Bell Co.!
I was up at the best bike shop in the country as far as I know and I found this bell. This is a BELL. Like they took it from a minature boxing ring. Listen to that sustain! Made in Japan. I love it when their good bike stuff gets through to us. (This is […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bell, bicycle, bike, Crane Bell, Harris Cyclery, Japan
Bikes Can Work 