Bike Blog

Cyclelicious found this. As you can see, the world needed cycling rap videos.

I like the Velo Orange folks. I'm not a fanatical fan of french bikes, but I applaud their interest in offering alternatives to modern carbon fiber disposable racing machines. So I browse their blog sometimes. Recently, Chris posted about weight, and how he suggests that cyclists worry too much about it...

In biking, it's better to be the belt and suspenders sort of rider. Especially going long distances.

(All of my British friends: quit snickering!)

For a few weeks this past month, I was worried that my biking skills were on the decline. Maybe I was loosing weight too fast. Or maybe something was wrong with my bike. Or something like that. Also, one of my hand muscles... coincidentally the one used for shifting, was hurting REAL BAD...

I'd just like to remind everybody that I'm officially not watching the Tour de France...

Since before I've been seriously biking, Reese has been seriously jogging. I, of course, have been slowly and subtly working to convince her that she should be biking instead of jogging, so I'll have fun people to ride with. :)

I wrote about my biking, and they gave me a link. :)

Two years ago, today, I walked into a bike store and rode out on a new bike, with the idea that it was fairly stupid to be driving 10 miles to work when I could bike 5 miles and take the train the rest of the way. I figured that I'd save money and get some exercise...

I'd heard about Bike Party before and wanted to go but didn't get around to it. Finally, Jess went and had a blast. So I finally added the Bike Party website to my RSS reader and made sure to show up...

I have to keep adding more extreme bike rides in order ot keep myself motivated. There's so many cool spots to reach via bike and if I keep my eye on the next cool spot that's just a little bit farther than I could reach before, I'll be motivated to keep trying.

I've realized that, over the past two years, I have become exceptionally passionate about biking. I wasn't always like this...

So I've been doing the bike commute for about 2 years, with some stretches of driving because of my bike getting stolen. And I've seen the same people over and over again riding the train with me and then I've seen some people who got frustrated and returned their bikes to the dustpile. The thing is, ten years from now, I probably can't be as effective of a voice as I can be now because some of it is still very much new to me too...

Too many college kids have written "Get off the road" articles about cycling for their college papers. I think this explains why they are stupid.

Hill climbing is my nemesis. The problem is that I've got a fairly decent amount of power output, but my power-to-weight ratio is pretty poor. On the flat ground, power-to-weight doesn't matter nearly as much as going uphill.

If you tell me to get off the road while I'm going faster than the speed limit in my bike...