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 …
For the summer, I will be riding in Love to Ride/League of American Bicyclists Challenge as I have for the last several years. But this year there is something new. LtR has asked us to chart our rides based on the quality of the infrastructure and how we are feeling. Ideally this could help cities …
Many beginning cyclists can do more to avoid dangerous altercations with distracted or angry drivers that include road rage, close calls and even accidents. My employment takes me to various places in town. One of the first things I do in preparing for a new to me route is to look online or a credible …
I started my ride today like I usually do by riding a short loop through the neighboring park and back to Tenney Park where I picked up the Yahara River Parkway Trail to the Bicycle Boulevard and downtown. I have more positive energy with the official beginning of bicycle season, including the League of American …
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The Good I got out for a training ride on my road bike this morning to celebrate May 1. My destination was the Arboretum to take a photo of the Zurich, my carbon road bike of 16 years, with the immaculately blooming effervescent lilacs. The ride is just under 30 km and wanders through the …