Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Advocacy/Awareness

This is your brain…

We do our best to be educational and to not rant about bike issues.  We wear helmets, always.  When our kids lived at home not wearing a helmet was a capital offense that resulted in loss of bike privileges and being grounded.  I still tell them "I already did diaper duty with you and don't Read More

People Powered Movement Photo Contest

The Alliance for Biking and Walking in Washington DC invites you to enter your best photos of biking and walking in the 2011 People Powered Movement Photo Contest--for a chance to win great prizes, have your images featured in Momentum magazine, and help build a free, online library of high-quality pictures for bike-ped advocates across Read More

Fatties, and Fat Tires Too

While not at first blush about bike touring, this video shows some of the earliest adapters and innovators in off road bicycles and components. Klunking, the genesis of "mountain bikes" and, perhaps, interestingly, of Grant Petersen's "diagatube" bikes? http://youtu.be/SVWP6VaLtvw Read More

Independence Day

Every bicycle related, or outside related magazine or advertisement assures me I can improve on my personal best performance by closely following the training advice offered therein. Alright, I think, I want to do my best. Even if doing better than myself feels like a lot of pressure I decide I will have a go Read More

In March of 2011 I rode across East Texas and Louisiana. I wanted to ride through south Louisiana into New Orleans but it was difficult to find information about cycling routes and the possibilities of getting stuck and lost in the swamps was a little too daunting and so I stuck with the Adventure Cycling Read More