Ladies Leading Double Lives: Sport vs Transport

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Published Aug. 15, 2010 at 12:26 p.m.
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Just as I have been experimenting with road cycling in parallel to using my bicycle for transportation, so have several other ladies with prominent bicycle blogs.  ... [image via Simply Bike] ... S. from Simply Bike normally looks like this when she cycles.  But above she is pictures riding across Iowa while taking part in RAGBRAI.  This was her first time on a roadbike!  ... [image via Adrienne Johnson] ... Adrienne Johnson of Velo Vogue  dons bike shorts and a (surprisingly attractive)

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Hmmm, too much pressure?

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:58 p.m.

From the "This Has Never Happened To Me Before" Department: Went out to get my mountain bike today and found the valve stem completely blown out and sitting on the shed floor. Front tire was as flat as the proverbial ...

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The Monocog is now the Octocog

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 11:29 a.m.
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While doing my long walk-push-coast through the Great Divide Basin in June, I had a lot of time to think about how I was going to rebuild my Monocog when I got back home. The Tour Divide beat the bike up pretty bad and I told the machine "When this is all done, I'm gonna get you some gears." I followed through on that promise and also touched up the worst of the paint dings. The saddle took quite a beating, including a permanent dent to one of the rails (probably from this bumpy landing), so I

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Park City loop trails and trees death/destruction

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 9:31 p.m.
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in an attempt to ride more of the unridden trails in park city by me, trish was good enough to volunteer her trail guiding expertise ... here we see the humble beauty slugging down some cycling refreshment ... we started at park city mountain resort or pcmr as the locals call it ... riding up the streets to deer valley resort we rapidly rose up numerous trails with names that sped by so quickly that my head was starting to spin ... that or it was the mass switchbacks going up ... now i'm not

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as per usual... the journey is the destination

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 8:59 a.m.
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ah ... summertime ... camp is over ... the kids are at home ... the world's second most difficult riddle needs to be answered ... "how do I entertain the kids? ... it is a tough one ... what is the most difficult riddle? ... no it is not ... "how many licks does it take to get to the center of the tootsie roll tootsie pop?" ... the world's most difficult riddle is ... "what's for dinner?" ... the second most difficult riddle can be almost as great of conundrum ... the children often object to

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On giving back

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 12:46 p.m.

I got an email yesterday thanking me for volunteering at Bike Beaverton, reminding me that it is about community ... While it can be frustrating to ride with kids and people new to cycling, I did have one woman tell me that she learned by watching me, so I explained the signs to her for stopping, turning, etc ... She was an adorable older lady on a mountain bike and it was fun to see her manage the hills while she was still learning to shift gears on her bike! ... Another Bridge Pedal is behind

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Sweetest Ta-glue: Putting the "Sade" in "Crusade"

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 7:05 a.m.
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As I mentioned yesterday, a cyclist in "full racing gear" recently hit a 73 year-old woman in Central Park and then rode away ... To date, this cyclist has not been apprehended ... However, thanks to the popular Twitter social networking site, it seems as though the perpetrator may have inadvertently surrendered himself: ... He doesn't mention that he also knocked out at least one grandmother (that we know about), but he was probably constrained by Twitter's draconian 140 character limit ...

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Sweetpea goes for a shorter ride than expected

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Published Aug. 8, 2010 at 9:31 p.m.
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Best enabler cyclist friend pointed out that the Edens Gate 400km brevet was going to happen on Aug 7 ... "Easiest 400K you'll ever do" ... Since I had not YET attempted a 400km and I was getting a new bicycle any day now, for the express purpose of riding brevets, and I had successfully completed a couple of 200kms, a 300km, and any number of 100+ mile rides since March, it seemed like a fine idea to me as well ... Sweetpea was ready Friday afternoon ... Rode it home, and started setting it up

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Less Piggy Parking

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Published Aug. 8, 2010 at 2:06 p.m.
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Now I'm Only Using Half the Rack. You can See how Close the Hedge Is ... In my earlier post, PM Summer commented that I was locking properly, if not correctly. He was polite enough to not mention that I was sorta hogging the whole bike rack; a byproduct of never seeing other bikes at the gym. Well, I've reformed - a bit. Below, you can see a closeup of the actual locking technique. As you can see, the mini U lock goes around the rear rim and the cable secures the front wheel. A thief would have

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Valve Stem Key Rack

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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.

Via the blog ViaComIt I stumbled on a great little house decoration hack possibility. What serious rider does not not have a graveyard of inner tubes? Well, if you pull those valve stems off and attach them to an old tire or flat mounting surface you can make yourself something like the following. Picture Credit to DaWanda.com Of course you could also just buy this one from producer KaWeDe on the DaWanda web site. This product and many other great recycled bike products can be found there. Being

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