Citizen Rider

 As the season of darkness settles on us in the northern hemisphere, bike commuters have to decide whether to continue or suspend their acti...

Daylight Relocating Time arrives this coming Sunday in the states that observe it. Let the whinging begin! I get that it's disruptive....

The early onset of snow and ice forced me into the car more than a month sooner than in past years. This has given me a lot of time to look ...

A few weeks ago, I observed in a post about aggressive driving in early autumn , that motorists on my route seemed particularly irritable on...

On the park and ride commute on Saturday, I was riding on one of the causeways of the Cotton Valley Trail. It's dead straight, dead flat...

A bike mechanic should do more than absorb and repeat the industry's latest technical information to keep pushing the wave of product ro...

Your faithful reporter has found this prototype of a cycling glove that puts the high viz where you can really use it. The manufacturer...

Around here, drivers seem to get more aggressive in September . This year it was a month late, possibly as a result of climate change. The i...

Half the world, anyway. It's called fall and winter. Daylight is below 12 hours in the Northern Hemisphere now, and shrinking steadily t...

As this blonde New England princess prepared to T-bone me by running a stop sign with her shiny Volvo station wagon full of handsome family,...

I measured about eight inches of snow at my house. Someone told me Wolfeboro logged 16. I don't know about that. Warm weather imm...

The dynamo hub seems like a good move to streamline my on-board light system. The bottle generator won't go to waste. It can move to th...

Chortling merrily at the power of my new light system I ventured into the deepening dusk of late October and November on the park-and-ride v...

For various reasons I have made my autumn conversion from full road commutes to park-and-rides. This puts me on the Cotton Valley Trail, ak...

I wanted to nudge the generator roller a little higher on the sidewall of the rear tire to see if it would run a little more quietly and hol...

On the commute this morning, once we got into town, drivers were passing too fast and too close, as usual. I reached back and flipped the sw...

Today I got my Planet Bike Superflash blinky light. I put it in the middle of the three lights I wear on my bum bag, retiring the loyal but...

While I was replacing the generator drive roller I figured out how to make the tail light mounting work better. The generic seat stay clam...

Last week was not a good one for riding. I had a bad cold, so I missed the day with the nicest weather. The next two days brought nastier...

As reported earlier, the light project ironically cost me the bike ride this morning. I left the house with the bike ready to ride. I had e...