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The Early Morning Cyclist

Mark writes from Kansas City, Missouri about his "sojourn into saving and riding vintage bicycles".

Bicycling, like walking, is to me a better way to explore my world. Travel by planes, trains, and automobiles leaves me with the feeling of a tenuous connection -- at best -- to places and people and events. Too, the mode of two-wheeled transportation has a magnetic pull on me; the simplicity and elegance of bicycle mechanics and mechanisms reminds me of the journey... and for me, the journey begins long before I pedal out of the driveway. I think it starts when I catch a glimmer of forgotten chrome under calendar-marked layers of grime, and I think to myself, "Hmm ... I wonder what I've got here?"

Web Site: marksbikes.wordpress.com
Location: Kansas City, MO [map]


Headlines From The Early Morning CyclistFeed

Rules for the ride. 05-19-2012
I just finished reading Grant Peterson’s book Just Ride. To me, he just makes good sense for most riding, the vast majority of which is undertaken by noncompetitive cyclists. I’m not a racer by any stretch of the imagination, so über lightweight wonder weenie […]
Lost in the ride 05-14-2012
This is the best part of cycling: getting lost in the ride, losing all sense of time and even forgetting about the bike itself â€" just being one with the path and experiencing whatever comes along. Several times each year, my wife and I journey south to the Ozarks […]
Wet Ride 05-06-2012
According to my cell phone it's sunny and 84 degrees with a light breeze coming out of the southeast.  Should be pretty close to perfect â€" so why was it that I found myself cruising along twenty miles from home and seemingly dodging lightning bolts, getting […]
Thoughts for Mr. Cheapo 05-05-2012
A few weekends back one of my nephews rang me up. He's a teacher in his first year, and a multi-sport coach as well, with all of the baggage that comes with such a role, including a marginal amount of free time to exercise. I understood that he wanted to begin riding […]
Whither, oh weather? 04-28-2012
Summers in Missouri tend to be oppressively hot and unbearably humid, causing most people in these parts to run from the air conditioning of their vehicles to the air conditioning of their homes or places of business. Even a short trot across a parking lot will usually result […]
Squawk! 04-22-2012
Building up the Boulder has been, in many ways, a very different experience for me. For all of the vintage road bikes I’ve worked on, it’s been a little intimidating to find myself doing a frame up build with mostly contemporary components. My experience with […]
Gotta get my tweed on! 04-07-2012
The 3rd Annual Kansas City Tweed Ride, April 14, 2012! There’s a growing community of bicycling enthusiasts in Kansas City and one of the funnest groups with whom to enjoy a two-wheeled perambulation is gathering next Saturday in Kessler Park for their annual “afternoon […]
Fast. 03-31-2012
There are rides when it's all about "faster," when it's not so much about getting there as it is about getting there faster. Climb this next hill faster! OK, now descend faster! Great – here come some long flats… let's go faster! Spin […]
Shakedown Ride 03-29-2012
I’ve been waiting all week for a chance to get in a real shakedown ride on the Boulder. I’ve got a regular route I take to put a new build through the paces, one that gives me some mileage, some hills, some flats, rough rural tarmac, along with some in-town stop-and-go-riding. […]
The Dream Bike? 03-26-2012
Is this my dream bike? The one that will last me for a generation or more? The Boulder is finished – at least for the moment – and I’ve taken her out for a short inaugural dust-off ride. Other than riding her down the street last night after I added the […]

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