Citizen Rider

 Ski season has been on-and-off as the little bits of snow come and go, separated by lazy lobes of polar vortex flopping down onto New Engla...

Ski season demands a different kind of energy than bike season. In some ways it's lower. If we have good snow, leading to active rentals...

  Back when the economy sagged around 1990, mountain biking surged, because it looked like cheap, accessible fun. A thousand bucks was still...

 Blue is almost but not quite perfect. The gearing covers a little wider range than on my original Cross Check. As I’ve put more miles on, I...

 Another breathless article about the "advanced" features that some bike brand or other might be slopping over onto more and more ...

 When mountain biking boomed and took the bike industry with it, to levels of social popularity really never seen in the industry's enti...

 Trainee David asked a lot of questions yesterday. As we worked through each brain teaser and skill builder I thought about teaching the cra...

The fun started to go out of the bike business with the arrival of index-only shifting systems in 1990. For a couple of years we could get t...

Today's high temperature was about 62 degrees at my house. In a forecast discussion one day last week on the  National Weather Service s...

The departure of winter weather has brought in the first bike repair of the season. New England has always had five seasons: spring, summe...