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A new (for two days) bike day!

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the super awesome bike I get to ride for the next few days: (check out those handlebars!!) No, I haven’t purchased a new bicycle, nor have I become any sort of awesome sponsored bikepacking athlete — I just dropped my bike off at Gladys Bikes …

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stasia •June 2, 2016Materials and Gear
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Being a bike-shopping buddy

It was a new bike day for this lovely lady this week: And being her bike-shopping buddy made me remember how much goes into finding just the right bike — and how intimidating that can be if you don’t feel like you know much about bikes to begin with. She’d …

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stasia •March 9, 2016Materials and Gear
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Lighting my way: hub-powered bike lights

As you know if you’ve read this blog recently, I spend an awful lot of time these days biking in the dark. Though the days are getting slooooooowly longer and the percentage of sunny vs. rainy days might be getting better, I, like many people here, still bike to work …

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stasia •January 10, 2016Materials and Gear
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Long-lost bikey loves

This is the bike that started it all: (a good old Trek 1500: low-end but lovely racing bike) I bought it in 2005 after I graduated from college. My roommate and I had just moved away from our shabby house in Portland into what I think was the last affordable …

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stasia •August 29, 2015Materials and Gear
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