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Keys To Family-Friendly Routes

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 pre-bias [...]

Minnesota Rules: Lights & Bikes

Rules about lighting bicycles at night in Minnesota. [...]

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Useful Product Find

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 experience.

Sunblock: [...]

Bicycling on the Rise: Need to Knows

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 as [...]

Bicycles & Women’s Rights

CNN is presently carrying a Mental Floss article on the role of the bicycle in promoting mobility for women – both physical [...]