Bike Blog

Given that I've discovered that I like long rides on my bike very much, the thought of getting a bike more appropriate to such rides has occurred to me. After all, I'm on a $400 low-end cross-country hardtail mountain bike. So I've been researching. I haven't ridden on a road bike in at least a decade... and when I did, it had stem shifters and suicide levers, so I wasn't exactly riding it the way road bikes were intended to be ridden...

how biking in the rain gets harder with breathable clipless bike shoes and how nobody's helping...

This month's theme: Crossdressing (I didn't participate). Starting in Santa Clara, going North.

You want to know what happened to me while I was riding through San Jose a few weeks ago?

I got myself a new cycling jersey, to celebrate that I can wear a cycling jersey and not look Fred, and it's got a special MP3 player pocket. I showed it to the boss (who, as regular readers know, is a hardcore triathlete) and the first thing out of his mouth after asking about the back pockets was along the lines of "MP3 pocket? As if we didn't have enough trouble with getting run over already!"

So, I wrote earlier about what you should know if you wanted to get started riding to work. Now I'm going to write about a bunch of stuff that isn't necessary on the first day you start riding, but I think make the whole experience easier...