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 …
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 …
Awww. I came out of Planet Granite the other day and found that my bike — a Soma Double Cross — had been joined at its bike rack by another Soma Double Cross. (double trouble of black Double Crosses:) I do so love my bitty bicicleta, and when I see …
There are a lot of really sad bicycles in New York. Bikes chained up (and, in fact, most of them are chained, not U-locked) and seemingly forgotten about litter the sidewalks. Many are missing integral pieces — say, a wheel, or two, or a seat, or the handlebars. Many have …
