Dear Bicycle Community,
I must confess there are few things that I love more than riding a bicycle with 34x20 gearing. Each mile accomplished my love for the activity grows. It is my belief that the only way for me to derive more joy from this activity is to indulge in with the company of others. Perhaps you, me and all of our friends could plate the front wheels of our bicycles with corrugated plastic and go for a spin around the city. A moderate yet exciting speed of 6 miles per hour can easil… Continue

I wrote this blog post about Pedal Republik on Renovating the Rust Belt .

Please? Anyone?


Please?

Dear Hutchinson Tire Company,
Two years ago I purchased a set of your Tour de France 2 Kevlar tires from performance bikes and was satisfied with their performance. They lasted me the season and accumulated a little under 3000 miles before I retired them (no pun intended). A year went by and I moved to a set of continentals which also performed excellently. But I felt their lack of zesty color and significantly higher rolling resistance were enough to merit dismissal and replacement. Which bring… Continue

After many nights of hard drinking, hard drinking and confused thinking, hard drinking confused thinking and president Lincoln, hard drinking with president Lincoln who confused my thinking about the ways of polo; the only possible remedy for my failures at Dayton. I've come to terms with my dismissal of free wheel bikes being legitimate on the courts, and accepted their potential. In a new 12 step program with Leonard Zinn and Andy Hampstead as my sponsors, I will be testing the waters of freew… Continue