Mid-Life Cycling:

Today I will once again invoke my "Howard Cosell rule ." That means today's post won't involve bicycles or bicycling. By now, you know what happened last night.  During the previous two Pr...

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  Today is Election Day here in the US. May the best (wo)man win!

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 You never know who you might meet during your ride even if it’s a commute!

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Eight years ago, I recalled my comical attempts to sell bicycle safety flags that had been in American Youth Hostels’ storage room for, probably, a decade. That got me to thinking about how ...

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 I voted yesterday. It You probably know my pick for President. And you surely know that at least one factor in my choice is that bicycling has been an integral part of my life. Neither Ka...

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 The title of this post sounds like a nickname for a serial murderer.  “Hill Killer ” is actually the name of a bicycle apparel company in Hampstead, Maryland. I haven’t bought bicy...

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 Here I am, on my Halloween ride:

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For as long as I can remember, someone has predicted the demise of the local bike shop.  The first "threat" came from mail-order giants like Bike Warehouse/Bike Nashbar, Bikecology/Supergo and...

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In temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, October paints its light with strokes from deepening, drying leaves of red, yellow, orange and brown. But those hues also reflect the light of...

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When I lived in Manhattan, I often cycled across the George Washington Bridge:  I could set out for Bear Mountain around sunrise on a late spring or summer morning and be back before noon.  Eve...

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 Cycling has been one of the few constants in my life.

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 Here in New York City, the prototypical commuter/errand/“beater” bike has flat handlebars, a single fixed cog or freewheel and tires somewhat wider and thicker than those found on road bike...

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  West 59th Street, Manhattan, from the saddle of Tosca, my Mercian fixed-gear bike.

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 One of the reasons I have never attended my high-school reunions is an encounter I had with a classmate just after I graduated. We were in the stands for the Thanksgiving Day football game. H...

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The bicycle has been described as the parent of the automobile and grandparent of the airplane.  Indeed, most of the technology found in early--and, in some cases, current--cars and planes was c...

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I took one economics course as an undergraduate. What did I learn? Well, there is a subject at which I am worse than I am at math, which is saying something. Oh, and I learned a few terms that co...

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 Is this just another way to say “I crashed?”

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 On my way back from a ride to Fort Totten, I stopped on the Malcolm X Promenade and captured (I hope) some of the energy of a Fall day.

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 I participated—twice as a marshal—in 15 of the first 25 Five Boro Bike Tours. In the early years, it was a lot of fun because all participants, whether they came from near or far, were cycl...

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I am very happy that the Women's National Basketball Association is finally getting at least some of the attention it deserves--even if it took a heterosexual Great White Hope to get it.  As muc...

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 He takes his bike to work and I went to Harvard—where I bought an overpriced sweatshirt.

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 When I crashed and was “doored” three months apart, people asked me whether I considered giving up cycling.  That was four years ago. I’d been riding practically all of my life and a d...

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 People in Florida expected the worst as Hurricane Milton approached. While it struck with less force than anticipated, it still left death and destruction in its wake. But the real disruption...

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I most recently visited Montréal around this time of year in 2015. My visit spanned a holiday weekend in the US: Columbus/Indigenous People’s’ Day, which just happened to coincide with Canad...

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 If this mural isn’t an incentive to ride—or visit The Bicycle Chain in Raleigh(!), North Carolina—I don’t know what is.

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