Obviously, being Mr. Astoria Bike went straight to my head. But then since www.astoriabike.com was available… well, why not? It’s a better name. It’s a shorter name. And better me than some city-phobe I’m-so-smug I-live-in-Pacific-Northwest where we-respect-nature and have-bike-paths bastard in Astoria, Oregon. Always messing up my google searches, they are. Changes should take in…
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From a comment: I’m trying to decide on a new bike for riding in the city, commuting to work, and getting to farmer’s markets. I figure regular rides will be short- 3-5 miles, but there will be a random 10+ miler once in a while. Any ideas? I’m looking at some touring bikes and I’m…
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Another biker killed by a vehicle on a bike path. Not a bike lane mind you. But a bike path. You know, where cars aren’t supposed to be. The New York Times link http://bikeblog.blogspot.com/
This is from a friend of mine: From: Colleen McGuire [mailto:cmcguire@cyclegreece.gr]Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:08 AMSubject: hiring for adventure travel greece …I am looking for a personal assistant to help me with CycleGreece www.cyclegreece.gr and a new company we are building for active and soft adventure in Greece. Perhaps you know someone who is…
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I was buying a bike tire at my favorite Astoria/Long Island City Bike Store (Bicycle Repair Man, 40-11 35th Ave, tel: 718 706-0450. Open 10 – 7, closes around 2 on Sunday). And was eyeing the Continentals 3000. They’re expensive ($45-$50), but I’ve had good luck with them. He only had yellow. I didn’t want…
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One thing this blog isn’t about is where or how far I biked on my latest ride. I don’t care about your ride. I don’t expect you to care about mine. But Saturday night a friend was over with a bike I gave him (see oh those sexy french ladies’ frames below. I wasn’t going…
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I just learned that Sheldon Brown has a bad-case muscular disease. Perhaps a particularly bad kind of M.S. (and even the good cases aren’t great). At some point, he’s inspired a whole lot of people on bikes. And anybody who has ever put wrench to bike has looked at his web site, the first source…
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There’s an article in the current New Yorker about bike culture in New York City. I was afraid to read it for a few days because I just knew it would piss me off. I read it. I didn’t piss me off in an angry way. It just pissed me off because it’s a pretty…
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The New Yorker piece on bikes has this crazy guy in the article who was all into the importance of everybody obeying the law—especially bikes. Even though this freak had no problem littering his cigarette butts while ranting about other people (say in German accent:) not following the rules! [I have to give some props…
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I’m always been impressed by what bikes can carry. Someone just sent me these pictures.
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