Welcome back to Dieter Loibner, who recently finished the last ride of his R12 challenge. What’s an R12 challenge? And what did it teach him? Read on! :) (And congratulations Dieter!) Okay, it’s over. Done and dusted. Twelve rides, around 200 kilometers each. That amounts to approximately 1500 miles, stretched …
Leaves in the bike lane… Swift tires crunch through them, loud I’m glad they’re not wet
Sometimes, a bike route I take a lot falls out of practice for me. Generally, it’s because I stop doing something that I have been doing, like when I graduated from school and stopped going to SW Portland as much, or when I stopped teaching Bike Club and thus stopped …
Back when I was a teacher commuting every day, my standard complement of biking was about 100 miles a week–a little over 19 miles every day of work, plus extra miles now and then for errands, side trips, the long way home. Really, I usually ended up over 100, but …
