Citizen Rider

After dwindling away to nearly nothing, winter jumped back into the game with 15-20 inches of snow. Depth varied with your location. I mea...

Ordering chains the other day, I sifted through the offerings from SRAM, KMC, Shimano, and others. Our default chain has been SRAM, because ...

Whenever someone tells me that something basically trivial is "to die for," I am briefly tempted to make them do it. But the vapid...

Driving season is grinding me down the way it always does. Sitting behind yet another ambling piece of flotsam as I'm trying to get the ...

As a person ages, regular exercise becomes more important to keep the body moving and the mind engaged. Well before you reach the point wher...

When you get a lighter bike, it feels unbelievably agile and quick. For weeks, you feel like a superhero. For months you smile at the sight ...

Since my last post, I have started a couple of entries, only to be dragged away for long enough to lose the thread of them. As this strang...