Since this blog is ostensibly about bike touring news, here is a newsy sort of a post. May 5, 2011 Due to the rising Mississippi River causing the closure of the New Roads/St. Francisville ferry, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) has opened the John James Audubon Bridge. This emergency opening will accommodate Read More
Chris Johnson already coined the word "micro-tour". "Small tour" might describe our Saturday ride. Eleven miles to a little restaurant in a neighboring town, a cup of coffee, some fish tacos and some time to sit in the sun and read. Doesn't even really qualify as "cycling". It's just something we did and we happened Read More
The bike "industry" has designed mental baggage for us to carry with us on our bike rides. The baggage of lightweight-extreme-beat-up -your -buddy-ism. The baggage that weighs down that latest, lightest, most expensive gear with the fear that, without said gear, other people might look down on us as if we are beginners. Can't really Read More
While much of our time in Austin was spent inside at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, we did get out and about a bit. Most of these photo's were taken with my phone but thought it would be fun to give you a little view of some of the things we saw. I must Read More
I wonder if my experience is that much different from other bicyclers'. Some of the time, or most of the time, after I have been out on my bicycle for a while, and usually when I am by myself, I will have an insight or a solution to a particular problem or situation which I Read More
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