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Category: Materials and Gear

The stuff that gets you places

questing for the perfect waterbottle

In, oh, ten years of using only a bike for transportation, I have yet to find the perfect waterbottle solution. Since I started biking, I’ve generally used some form of the generic plastic bottle–you know, the kind where you can open it with your teeth while you’re biking and hydrate …

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stasia October 26, 2011 October 26, 2011Materials and Gear 1

waterproof gloves, anyone?

My poor gloves. Back in February, the universe conspired to help me get rid of two old pairs of gloves that had way outlived their usefulness but that I couldn’t quite get rid of. (If there’s anything I hate, it’s buying new stuff.) First, I dropped one of my gloves …

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stasia April 28, 2011 August 29, 2013Materials and Gear 0

Hauling (or, how to use your bike to carry large loads)

One of the top things people ask me when they learn I don’t have a car is “how do you carry (insert anything large here)??” Oddly enough, people usually settle on “groceries” as the biggest, most bulky load they can think of–which is funny to me, since with very few …

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stasia March 12, 2011 February 22, 2013Favorites, Materials and Gear how-to, lifestyle, touring 3

the money breakdown

Being unemployed right now means that I probably think about money (and not having any) more than your average bear. Or maybe not, since I hate thinking about money. But either way, I was thinking about it as I biked around today, and I got to wondering how much having …

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stasia March 2, 2011 February 22, 2013Favorites, Materials and Gear biking reasons, cost, thoughts, travel 5
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