4 Rochester

Election Day here was a beautiful near 70 degree day, so I took the opportunity for a nice bike ride along the Genesee Riverway Trail through Genesee Valley Park. Although I have mixed feelings about graffiti, I have to admit that I love this one. I wasn’t the only one who decided to take in [...

We write about it often here at RocBike, but that’s because it’s such a treasure. You must get out to the Genesee Valley Greenway, if you live anywhere in western New York. These scenes are from portions of the Greenway between Rochester and Scottsvills. On a separate trip, we took Zoe, who...

A little while ago, Jody over at that which rolls wrote about biking in the Finger Lakes National Forest. Here are a few great spots in nearby Burdett for cyclists. I’ve never been here when it’s open, but it looks like a great place for service, and they had some new bikes in there as [...

Although I’ve been commuting to my office in downtown Rochester regularly for some time now, my job sometimes requires me to attend meetings at the other campus of MCC (Monroe Community College, for non-Rochester readers). That campus is on E. Henrietta Rd., a clogged main artery leading to the...

Jason already posted the local news story about the Adore Your City bike ride. I finally got to meet regular commenter Keith, and was surprised by how many people I knew there, since this was my first group ride, outside of a few Critical Mass rides in the past (which are a totally [...]

When one of my students found out that I had decided to bike 45 miles (in one day, a point I had to clarify) before my 45th birthday, she said, “Couldn’t you have just done a mile a day?” At one point I would have said the same thing. I am distinctly NOT of [...]

After a powerful Earth Day sermon that echoed many of the themes in Michael Pollan’s recent call to each individual to do something about climate change, and included a mention of the Rochester Chicken Club (of which I am a proud member–watch my personal blog for more on that topic), I came...

–Biking with others makes you feel more empowered on the road and gets you more respect from drivers. –Wind Chill isn’t just a stat that the TV meteorologists (who take an approach to weather that can only be described as “weather as horror flick”) came up with to scare...