Category: Cycling

Better riding schedule: As much as you want when you can, or as much as you can when you want?Bill Strickland, Cycling magazine, June 2015

Marshaled for the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure yesterday.  My phone seemed to be sucking more juice than normal, probably looking for cell towers out in the suburbs, and my BoostBloc had died, so I didn’t have any extra way to charge it.  The gist of which is that even though my Cyclemeter profile…

Multiple sclerosis is the No. 1 disabling disease of young adults in America. The average annual cost of living with MS exceeds $35,000 per person with lifetime costs of more than $2.2 million. At least 1,000 people with MS in Minnesota live on $600 per month – that’s $200 below poverty level. This year’s tour…

via Pearls Before Swine, 2013-01-13As soon as the snow melts, we can resume the hostilities; but it doesn’t need to be that way.  Everyone should just try to be a little more considerate of each other.  Cyclists should wear lights at night, and stop jumping out in front of moving traffic; motorists should get off…

Watch this video about a cool bicycle parking system in Japan. via email from Nat Forbes, Fri, 6 Dec 2013 02:20:47 -0800

Finished the long route of the Mankato River Ramble yesterday, along with Jill.  The weather wasn’t the best, drizzly and in the mid-forties and the color wasn’t as vivid as it has been in prior years, but it was a nice day, we stopped for apples on Highway 169 on the way home, and had…