Ride Boldly!

When bicycle advocates talk about safety, they frequently talk about engineering issues, defensive cycling and vehicular behavior, stopping at stop signs, etc. etc. But cycling safety goes beyond those issues. Taking care of YOURSELF is also core to cycling safety, especially on sweltering summer days like the one we’re having today here in Minnesota. There [...]

Bicycling Magazine provide a pretty solid maintenance checklist for those getting their fair-weather bike out of storage, whether because they didn’t ride this winter or because they rode a beater bike. The League of American Bicyclists ABC QuickCheck, as taught in Bike Ed courses, is a good checklist to execute each and every time you [...]

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 [...]

Spring is here. High gas prices are here, too. With that comes a deluge of people asking: “What bike should I buy?” I end up answering that a lot for friends, relatives, random co-workers who see the picture of me and my husband on bikes I have in my office and who have heard rumors [...]

Fall is the right time to prepare for winter cycle-commuting. The right equipment and preparation makes it possible.

Bicycle seat height is one of the most frequently misadjusted ‘fit’ features of a bicycle, and the easiest for the novice to fix.