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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 [...

Here’s my version of what I’d like News 10 NBC to do (yes, I’m on a bit of bike theft rant these days). Dear News 10 NBC Editors: On 18 August 2008, News 10 NBC ran a story about Mayor Robert Duffy’s “Zero Tolerance” crime policy. Part of the story featured footage of a Rochester police...

Isn’t that a beautiful bike? Here’s the story…it’s 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...

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...

I love many things about living in Rochester, and now I can add the Rochester Twilight Criterium to the list. Not only was it an awe-inspiring race, but you could get close enough to get vertigo from the wheels spinning by as a hundred cyclists rode flat out in the rain. And, it being Rochester [....

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...

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 [...]