Just last week, I finally sold the fixed gear bike I’ve been holding onto as my extra bike. I’d initially bought it as a winter commuter, but it was just a wee bit too big for me, and I never loved it the way I love my Trek. I’d take …
Yesterday, I went with the Community Cycling Center to teach a Create-A-Commuter workshop, a 5-hour class where adults who are enrolled in various employment programs get a new bicycle built especially for them and equipped with a lock, rack, lights, and hand pump. They learn about the rules of the …
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 …
If you had asked me in high school–when I was sometimes riding the 2 miles to school on my bike–if I’d like to go for a 70-mile joyride, my itty-bitty high school self would have thought you were crazy. Heck, if you asked me in college, when a bike was …
