Cycling tourists believe that one or more of three things should be on your bicycle at all times if you expect to keep it: your hand, your butt or a strong lock. One of the phreds mentioned seeing an interesting cable lock at The Graveyard Mall, a site that says it’s “where high prices go [...]
Entries from July 2008
Avoid This Bike Lock with Alarm
July 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Bike Accessories
Bike Shorts Must Be Worn at All Times
July 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments
If Mark Tatulli’s Lio is right and this means there are bikes in hell, my afterlife is looking up. On the downside, I’d prefer bibs to shorts. Speaking of Hell and Bike Bibs… This weekend, I wore through the Pearl Izumi Slice UltraSensor Bib Shorts that I just bought last month. With just five outings [...]
Tags: Bike Clothes
I’m Living With a Blonde Joke
July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I was sitting at the dinner table, snacking on a fresh mango off the tree in our back yard, when I heard The Other Half (TOH) say something about finding some typos on PBBT. I told her I’d give her edit access so she could correct them, but she said she’d just make notes and [...]
Tags: You Ran Over What?
What Do You Need to be Safe on a Bike?
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
My Google News bicycle search grabbed a mostly favorable piece from the Fort Scott (KS) Tribune this morning. It was a collection of tidbits from the Kansas Department of Transportation and contained a “helmet saved her life” anecdote. At the top of the story was a picture, “Adam Arnold, 14, Fort Scott demonstrates the proper [...]
Tags: Bicycle Safety and Advocacy
Super Colliding and Super Cycling in France
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
This month’s issue of Science News features an article on the Large Hadron Collider. The eight billion dollar collider is being used to see what the big bang looked like and to find out if Albert Einstein was actually smart. Tour de France Above, Science Below Science is all well and good but what caught [...]
Tags: You Ran Over What?


