Ride Boldly!

Winter is a good time to clean out the buckets of bike stuff and attend… swap meets!

Twin Cities Bike Swap Meet – February 14, at the National Sports Center. $5 admission to a really giant event. Tables $40 to sell.
TCBC Swap Meet – March 27, at the Hopkins VFW. Free entry, free to sell for [...]

While I don’t have a lot of experience in the topic, I think regular exposure is one of the keys to bringing up a child to like being outdoors and to like cycling. I am attempting to test this on my own child, who is really the child of two cyclists – so perhaps there’s [...]

Rules about lighting bicycles at night in Minnesota.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

Hot Clif Shot, originally uploaded by Between Stations.

This can’t be a good idea.

Maybe I’m a decade behind the rest of the universe, but sunblock towelettes are awesome.
Because they’re moist towelettes in individual packs, they fit perfectly in a jersey pocket or in a waterpack for mid-ride sunblock refresh. You still need help to get the back of your shoulders, but that’s true with any sunblock in my [...]

Multiple sources — from bike shops to news sources to anecdotal observation — suggests that bicycling is way up in response to heinous gasoline prices. I suspect this means that people who don’t normally ride much are coming out.
If I could give them a few tips, here are the things I would put into place [...]