Prayers for the new year

A family bike ride shortly after New Year’s led all four of us to Hall’s Hill Park and a visit to the prayer wheel.  It was a chilly, invigorating ride — me on LRB, Josie on her Giant, Stef on Will’s Giant, and Will on his Cannondale mountain bike.   We pushed up the hill, took [...]

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17 days without riding… but who’s counting

With my current winter swimming schedule (M-W-F), the holidays and over a foot of snow on the ground, it’s been 17 days since my last ride — the longest off the bike since I began riding in June of 2007.   Fortunately, I’ve been able to step up spinning at the gym, which I trust is [...]

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Chop wood, carry mail

I haven’t posted much here this summer, maybe because I’ve been going through something of a bicycling identity crisis.   Trying to reach a simple decision about changing the Redline from a two to three chain-ring system triggered a flurry of thoughts and feelings, and since the change was made, it seems I’ve rounded a bend [...]

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Mileage: 4,977.30

Did a 30+ mile ride yesterday on the familiar south-end routes.  I now have about 23 miles left to go before hitting 5,000 miles on my odometer – in fact, I will probably do it on my next ride, sometime this weekend.  It’s a testament to how corny I am, to be thinking about where I want [...]

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Frances E. Willard, bicyclist

Indeed, I found a whole philosophy of life in the wooing and the winning of my bicycle.

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Liftoff

From the May, 2008 issue of Adventure Cycling magazine.  No link to the article is possible, unfortunately, as it is not posted on the organization’s website.  I hope Mr. Weir does not mind me sharing it, as it saves much xeroxing and mailing to friends and family.  It’s one of the best pieces I’ve read about [...]

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Words to live by

Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work.

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