I rolled out of the drive late this morning on my inaugural 2025 ride around Monona Bay and back. It’s always more meaningful to test out new gear and components and today was no exception. Monday I swapped in a new chain and rear cassette. And I really felt the difference mainly in a lack …
On my bicycle commute to the lab, I was aware of the colder temperatures of 17F with wind chills a few degrees colder. There was scattered snow on the pavement. Before my ride I went through my winter gear for the first time this year and picked out my thermal upper and lower base layers. …
It’s been an especially lovely road on a bicycle this month. It’s the time of year when one wants to get out as much as possible to enjoy the fleeting days of autumnal bliss. Leaves are now just past their peak in color here and are falling from their branches twirling to the ground in …
As I was riding my bicycle on the Bay Triple Loop ride, I came across two instances of shattered glass bottles in the bike lane. If you’ve ever had a shard of glass in your flat tire, you know better than to break bottles on the bike path. But more importantly, it’s littering and destructive …
Today I decided to ride my Fuji commuter bike to my physician’s clinic. So glad I did. Like many of you know, we create so much positive energy in the saddle of our two-wheeled friends. I had to commute halfway around Lake Monona but about halfway there I ran into a detour eventually that hadn’t …
It’s far more empowering to ride a bicycle and be one’s own source of transport than driving a car and depending on a heavily polluting gas combustion engine. This evening on the spur of the moment I got my grocery panniers out of the closet and set sail for the grocery store. Because it was …
Sunday morning is for riding. After completing some tasks at home, I launched my ride with my Zurich road bike. I road through Demetral Park to Commercial Ave. On Friday, I “called in” an instance of broken glass in the bike lane here. I looped back on Sherman Avenue through Tenney Park along Yahara Parkway …
I recently spent a week in Michigan riding my road bike in the northwestern part of the lower peninsula in the Traveese City area. The trip was a multi-modal pursuit. We hauled the bike from WI on an Allen bike rack that performed very well. I parked the car each morning in a lot on …
After grocery shopping this morning, I hit the path riding at 10:11 AM. The weather was warming up to approximately 80F at the end of the ride. There was a cool breeze on the bike as I pedaled to Commerce and Sherman on the first loop of the ride. Breezes on the wheel are especially …
Just after publishing my book Cycling and Prolifics in Life at 10,000 miles (per season), I was forced to downsize my home which was not all bad because the apartment I found had free heat, electricity and water entirely from clean energy sources. Someone once said we are most happiest when we live more according …