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, July 29, 2025

Racing hard, or hardly racing?

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 There's a long, steep hill to climb from "better than average" to "one of the best." Anyone who has tried to race k...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

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 The problem with bike commuting into my golden years is that I can't be sure from day to day whether I feel slow and weak because I jus...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

"Consult a professional bicycle mechanic"

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 Another tubeless tire victim came through a while back. He said he'd had the tires mounted at a shop where he lived. The staff there as...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Car culture chains the United States to dirty energy

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 No other country on earth was as smitten with the automobile as the United States. The oil industry itself originated in Pennsylvania, but ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

E-bikes will kill the bike industry as we know it

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  We're witnessing the beginning of an evolutionary shift in the bike industry and in popular bike usage. Where people used to talk abou...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Independence Day

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Main Street was blocked off. Spectators already lined the road to watch the parade. I rode up to the police officers at the Central Avenue i...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Motors and mass: ebikes make crashing more expensive

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 With ebikes rapidly becoming the vehicle of choice for workers who can't afford a car, these heavier, faster bikes attract riders who s...
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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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