There’s a lot of drivel out there written by folks with opinions (including yours truly), but there have been a couple of nice pieces recently that are worthy of spending a few minutes of your day reading. One is a New York Times bit called “The Case for Working With Your Hands,” by Matthew B. […]
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Last month, BRAIN reported that Best Buy would be selling “electric powered personal transportation products at some of our stores on the West Coast…” These electric powered personal transportation products (electric bikes for those lower on the IQ scale like me) will be available ranging from $499 to $2,000. So why is a company like […]
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Okay, I forgive a previous entry where I beat up on a certain brand for photographing a bike for an ad with gaps in the bar tape. This one takes the cake for absolute no attention to detail. Sometimes the ad agency owns you. In this case, the ad agency owes Road ID a freewheel. […]
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Since I’m not “in” the bike industry any more, I rely on Bicycle Retailer & Industry News (BRAIN) to keep abreast of the latest happenings within the bike industry. My little slice of the world is too small to understand what is happening with the rest of the bike world. It’s also been a while […]
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Tonight is Bakersfield and Beyond night on KWMR, a bi-weekly radio show I co-host with my friend Amanda. If anyone is a Dave Alvin fan, you’ll want to check out tonight’s show. We pre-recorded an interview with Dave last week and will be airing it tonight on our show between 6:30 – 8:30 pacific time. […]
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Pretty cool – bikeradar.com picked up my piece on the opening of Bill’s Trail in Samuel P. Taylor State Park to bikes I wrote yesterday. (What’s playing: Lucinda Williams Concrete and Barbed Wire)
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Recently, there has been talk about opening four single-track trails to bikes in Marin County. Yes, that’s four as in 4 trails out of the hundreds in the county. You’d think that opening 4 trails would be fairly benign, but nope, it’s got anti-bike folks all up in arms. I started writing the following several […]
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If there is one true hero in cycling, it is Graeme Obree. Read the book, watch the movie. They guy is definitely self-made and kicked the collective cycling establishment in the nuts when he broke the hour record on a home-made bike. And not one to rest easy, he’s at it again. When companies spend […]
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In addition to this bike stuff, I also get to co-host a radio show out here in West Marin on KWMR. Bakersfield and Beyond: Music for Maverick, Outlaws, and Romantics is a show dedicated to the Bakersfield Sound. The Bakersfield Sound crosses many musical genres with the center being twangy country with a harder edge […]
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I got an e-mail from a bike industry friend of mine. He mentioned another thing cyclists can do that really goes a long way in the driver vs. cyclist relationship. At most intersections, the bike lane stripe becomes dashed. It is within this dashed section that the bike lane […]
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We have quite a few “SHARE THE ROAD” signs out here in West Marin. There seems to be some confusion as to who that sign is directed. Is it a request for cars to share the road with cyclists or is it a request for cyclists to share the road with cars? Hopefully, it is […]
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I open at 9:30 a.m. on Saturdays. This is due in part to riders being out early on the weekend and wanting to be available to service problems they might have with their bikes. Yesterday, I stopped at the Bovine Bakery for my usual Saturday morning blueberry scone, opened up did some organizing/cleaning and waited. […]
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