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As I had hoped, for the first time since her scary but fortunately quickly-recovered-from accident, my daughter Brianne got out on a bike this weekend! She said she felt like a 7-year old, but she quickly got right back into it. I’ m very proud of her!

Back in April, I visited New York City to see my son’s orchestra perform at Lincoln Center. I took some photos of real live New York city cyclists, and here’s a sampling of what I saw. Get that person an Xtracycle (or at least some panniers!). The first beautiful day of Spring in Central...

So…this is a follow up to my previous post. Tanya was driving down Plymouth Avenue in Rochester, thinking…”You know, I’ve NEVER seen a GT Nomad…if I see one, I will know that it’s mine.” A few blocks later, she saw someone on a GT Nomad, a young man, stopped...

That supremely well-lit bike welcomed me and my partner to the Sugar Maple Trailside Inn in Florence, Massachusetts on our luxuriously long summer vacation (well, not as long as those who summer on Nantucket, another one of our stops, but long for us). The inn is filled with bicycle decor and bike...

Not THAT kind of sex! In a recent round-up of “Links of the Day,” Gordon Price at planetizen.com quotes columnist Thomas Friedman: “Being green, focusing the nation on greater energy efficiency and conservation, is not some girlie-man issue. It is actually the most tough-minded, geostrategic...

So, I was driving along listening to holiday music on WARM 101.3, and on comes John Tesh. (Okay, that’s a sentence you won’t often hear from me.) Anyway, he does these little segments on the radio called “Music and Intelligence for Your Life.” Maybe you all knew about this? Me...

Although I have many reasons not to move away from Rochester, if I do ever move, it will be to Toronto. I took a brief trip there over the holidays and it has tons of resources for both crafting and cycling. I’ll stick to the cycling aspects here. First of all, bike lanes, lots [...]

On the RocBike podcasts, Jason refers to me as the “knitting cyclist.” Actually, I should write that as the “Knitting cyclist.” Note the capital “K.” There are knitters who knit more than me, knit better than me, have knit for longer than me. But that doesn’t...

I’ve been cycling off and on since forever, but when I started working within two miles of my home, two years ago, I began to bike more frequently. It seemed ridiculous to get in my car and contribute to the melting ice caps, all to go a distance that I could get to just [...]