Thoughts about commuting by bike
Back when I was 1) teaching, and 2) keeping track of how far I rode with my bikey odometer/speedometer, my goal was always to ride at least 100 miles per week. A normal there-and-back daily commute was about 19 miles, so I figured that simply getting to where I needed …
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 …
Lest you thought I was kidding yesterday when I said that my commute home was snowy… this morning as I made my way up the hill, the world looked like this: …and this: I had to remember my long-disused snow-biking technique: slow down; use a low gear; brake early, slowly, …
My last post about loving my commute made me remember an article I read a few months ago: Are Urban Bicyclists Just Elite Snobs? Though the article’s not about commuting per se (nor is it necessarily about snobbery), it does explores the image of the urban cyclist in many of …
