Citizen Rider

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

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Competition and Monopoly

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 Capitalism always trends toward monopoly. Competition only seeks to increase market share. Once market domination is achieved, the "wi...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Beautifully crafted, reliable mediocrity

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 Like finding an old friend's obituary on the internet when I'm looking for something else, I noticed posts reporting that Surly had...
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Thursday, September 21, 2023

Challenges to transportation cycling

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 Yesterday I had an appointment to drop my car off for service. The mechanic I'd been going to for more than 30 years has been facing th...
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Monday, September 18, 2023

What the Ruck?

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 Scrolling through the teasers on my Google feed, I paused over the CNN headline, "Rucking is an easy way to fitness." I knew wha...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Gravel Riding

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 Searching for the Promised Land, riders fleeing persecution on the pavement disperse to safer-seeming venues like mountain bike trails, sep...
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Sunday, September 10, 2023

Ignorance is Economical

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 When I returned to the bike business in 1989, the mountain bike boom was still billowing upward into the mushroom cloud that peaked in the...
Friday, July 07, 2023

E-bikes aren't bikes

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 What has two wheels, handlebars, a crankset with pedals, and weighs fifty pounds? The answer could have been one of the first "safety ...
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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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