Citizen Rider

The road is the least popular place to ride a bicycle. We don't bother to stock road bikes anymore. I am the last person associated with...

 Every time we get a weak winter, I compare it to my memories of 1990-'91 and 1991-'92, the two that stood out for late arrival of s...

  Thanks to climate change, I had New Year's Day off for a change. The snow had been obliterated by rain in a storm right before Christm...

 One job is two jobs when you work for a shop with dual specialties. The cross-country ski business has been doomed in the Lower 48 states o...

 As someone with a conflicted relationship with motor vehicles, I have tried to spend as little as possible to buy one. But I need one becau...

 A regular customer brought his bike in to be checked after he’d had a flat tire out on the road. He’d put in his spare tube and pumped it u...

 A rider in traffic can use motor vehicles the way the pilot fish uses a shark. We can hover near the larger beast and let it make holes for...