Citizen Rider

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

Sunday, May 15, 2016

To pedal back from the edge of death

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The story starts with a handshake, or rather with a handshake avoided. A landowner in the area had come to the conservation commission to ...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Awkward size nipples

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I hate it when the spoke nipples on a wheel match no standard size wrench. I don't want to mangle a nipple with too loose or too tight...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Blast from the past

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Yep. It's just not training unless your upper lip is stuck to your top teeth in a rictus of agony, moistened only by occasional vomit. ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

It's all in how you say it

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Her breath came in ragged gasps. Her words, half-formed sounded somewhere between a sob and a moan. Our hearts pounded. It was starting to h...

How competition helped us in the 1990s

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Wolfeboro has been in a bicycling recession since the early part of the 21st Century. Cycling numbers appear stable, but definitely well bel...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Dying on the Highway

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I just got back from burying my sister's husband in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It's okay, he was already dead. The deceased was a mor...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Spring Snow

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"Spring snow is poor man's fertilizer" is an indirect way of saying "This is bullshit !" After a day in the 70s la...
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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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