Citizen Rider

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

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Money

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Long before the recent news blip about Chicago's proposed bike tax I was already thinking about how America would react to a surge in t...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

What a grunt

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The studded snow tires turned out not to be the best tool for the snowy path yesterday. Even though there was no more than a couple of inche...
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Monday, December 09, 2013

Kickin' back under the stars

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Riding out the path on Saturday night through frosty air, between frozen lakes, with a sky full of glittering stars, I kept thinking this wo...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

Separate but better

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I've been stuck in the car this week because of evening meetings and sketchy weather. It reminds me how much I hate being stuck in the c...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Dreams deferred

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I was going to say my bike had been across the country more times than I had, but that's not true. However, it did make one transcontine...
Friday, November 29, 2013

I don't really think of myself as a stud

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Back around 1990-91 we had a winter with early ice and late snow. Even though we would all prefer to go cross-country skiing, we studded up ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Beyond statistics

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A comment on this thread at People for Bikes stated that overtaking motorists strike cyclists in only about 10 percent of recorded collisio...
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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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