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Quote of the month, if not the year. 01-26-2012

commuterDude (muttered elsewhere on the Internets):My daily scan of regional Craiglist feed, looking for touring/rando frames, came across advert from a college town which begins with "need to sell bike for gas money..." Um, dude...why don't you sell the CAR […]

Bike Ninja 11-29-2011

A ratcheting whirr A cyclist's faint silhouette It's a bike ninja! See him up there? Yeah, neither do I. There are two other stragglers who refuse to put their bikes away. One's a well-lit, pannier-toting guy who goes eastbound then south. Then there's […]

Cabin Fever 10-28-2011

I didn't touch my bike at all this week. That feels strange. Some interesting sights caught my eye, though.

October. 10-18-2011

The past few days have finally started feeling like fall, for real. Cooler temperatures, rapidly shortening days, and now begins the hanging-up of bicycles. The various group rides are thinning out or calling it a year. I've been seeing fewer and fewer of the regular […]

The Tube. 10-14-2011

This post is mostly about car stuff. Feel free to ignore it. When bicyclists think of having to replace a tube, they most likely think of the inner tube of a tire. Old school electronics junkies might think of an electron tube. A while ago, my car's temperature gauge […]

Bike Salmon and Headwind 10-13-2011

The breeze picked up even more this afternoon, gusting close to 30, northwest. Perfect headwind for the early ride home. Noteworthy moment of the ride: Two helmetless 20-somethings on cartoonishly tiny BMX bikes with saddles all the way down, salmoning very slowly against […]

Morning Stillness 10-13-2011

4:30 AM. Check weather. Catch up on some stuff in Google Reader. 5:00 AM. Blearily and with reluctance attach my pannier to the rack, throw on the reflect-o-vest. Shove off.The stillness at this hour always surprises me. My usual commutes are close to rush hour, but even […]

Crosswind 10-12-2011

On this particular stretch of road, I had a nearly perfect crosswind. About a mile before this, it was the dreaded cross-headwind, which offers the worst of both worlds. I was going to stop a bit closer to the old train depot to capture the full flag of wind, but the big […]

Flashback 10-12-2011

Seems familiar for some reason.

Towel. 10-10-2011

"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded […]