1. Take the looooong way home on the Marine Drive bike path, along the Columbia River, on a sunny day. Watch the various waterfowl swim and dive along the shore. 2. Come up on an older fellow also biking along the path; cheerily call out “on your left!” and smile at him as you pass. [...]
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For the last three nights, James and I have been hosting Pete, a self-described red-bearded Welshman traveling around the Pacific Northwest on a tank of a $30 bike that he bought and fixed up when he flew in to Portland. It must be a Warmshowers adventure! I wrote about Warmshowers before when we hosted another [...]
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Did you know that May is National Bike Month? I’m always a little skeptical of national fill-in-the-blank months (who comes up with these things, anyway? And who makes them national?), but a bike month is something I can get behind! :) Anyway, the League of American Bicyclists has a whole bunch of specific events you [...]
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I can’t see that this has too many practical applications right now, but I like the thinking behind it: Basically, the guy who designed this, Ron Arad, used spring tempered steel to make tire-like structures that apparently feel surprisingly like tires to ride on. There are 18 strips of steel bolted together at various tension [...]
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