Citizen Rider

Some advice and a lot of first-hand anecdotes and observations from someone who accidentally had a career in the bike business.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Wood soles and glove leather uppers

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The forecast for this weekend wavered back and forth between a chance of showers or a chance of heavier showers. Rainy rides test your resol...
Monday, August 17, 2026

We are the ER of vacation fun

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  In Resort Town, our bike shop sees not only a seasonal surge of service work, but intense spikes within it as vacationers and weekenders f...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Heavy traffic

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Cyclists are used to being at or near the bottom of the food chain out on the road. Even so, I'm more comfortable there than in the conf...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Squeezers

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  Dammit, I let them piss me off. Not bird-flipping pissed off, but spurred to foolish exertion. Squeezers are always a problem. They squeez...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Can you afford to have fun?

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  A few years ago, as the local mountain bike organization -- to use the term loosely -- was getting more aggressive about building engineer...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Ridley conversion update

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  The new, mountain 12-speed barcon arrived for the Ridley cross bike conversion. The differences between it and the road shifter were obvi...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

New Shop vs Old Shop

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  Long before I arrived, the shop where I work opened in 1972 with a few simple tools. The bike side started as a way to generate summer inc...
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I like to explore under my own power. I like to avoid using motor vehicles, but I'm not obsessive about it. Okay, maybe I'm a little obsessive about it.
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