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Check out my articles on practical clothing tips for cold weather riding.  Don't need no stinkin' special bike clothes!

http://www.cibaride.org/index.php/53-documents/documents/169-end-of-the-season

Ron 'Year 'round' Gurth

www.gotgurth.net/veloamore.html

Man, what do you think of the Lance thing? 

I have heard that a lot lately.  I ride my bike to work, for dinner or breakfast, downtown for different events, and recreationally.  Never raced, though I have been known to, in my youth, go for personal land speed records.  Nonetheless, many acquaintances often ask what I think, or if I am upset.  I do, as friends know, have opinions about…

Working Bikes!..

Old, forlorned, rusty, dis-used, abused... Renewed!

Remote, isolated, dejected, unlinked... Connected!

Apart, broken, bent, forgotten... United!

Worthless, scruffy, scrap, discounted... Valued!

Working Bikes!

WORKING BIKES!

Many congratulations to the survivors of this weekend's Lake Pepin 3 Speed Tour! BBC delegates faced 30 MPH headwinds on Friday, murderous inclines on Saturday, and pissin'-down rains on Sunday. Others were cruelly cut down by the …

Change can be subtle or

Change may be great

Change is why I can't eat

a Dinosaur Steak

Moments imperceptible

or Nail to the Door

A rock in a river

Worn down by the war

A reef's up on Everest

With one loud voice, or

Perhaps Dillinger's Biograph

Movie Night choice?

The wheel on the Auto-car

or the Velocipede

A heart the motor

or fossil-fuel grease?

Change can be…

I don't really care what the cranks are made of

I don't mind the enormous tattoo

I never mentioned the mustache

I thought "rock it!" and

Maybe Ride Bikes with you

I just learned what's a 'fixe'

Hope you can handle an 8MPH cruise

A good bike is any, to

Maybe take a Roll with you!

Champagne is cheaper than gas

Why pay a health club for two?

It feels truer than traffic, to

Maybe Ride Bikes with…

... For letting us bring our pile of bikes into the bar. No hassle. This was not the first time either!!!! A quick, convenient jaunt from the Roselle METRA... Good pizza... Cold Sierra Nevada.. G'wan... Y'all can visit Diamond Lil's on your own exploration of the 'many lakes and many bridges' of the North Central DuPage Regional trail!

Diamond Lil's

103 E Irving Park Rd

Roselle,…

After a humiliating fumble and classic, not-to-be-soon-forgotten 500-point robbery just after the starting gun, bk managed to regroup and retain his championship status as Bag Footsie Champ with a dazzling 2000 points and the final, epic, off-trail snare of a full-size garbage bag!!! What a way to blast-off the 2012 Spring Bag Footsie season!

Was the math and Earned Snag Averages miscalculated in my initial boast? Yes. Is this an historic sport in the throes if its infancy? Of course!…

"Many Lakes"... OK.. This game is ON!!!! Now, I ain't been raised to be a vain or prideful man, but... I'll say this once: I will whup all y'all... all over over this route. Uhhhhh talking... Bag Footsie, sugar-britches. Looking at your feet won''t help ya! I'm up here. Bring any bike you want. I have a Huffy made of American Steel, crafted by American sweat and ingenuity with names like Bruce and probably Jose' and I heard maybe Veronica.

My front derailleur has been held…

Here in Uppsala, a city known all over Sweden for its bicycle culture, the new Home Zone makeover of a major thoroughfare has created mass confusion and no small amount of anxiety for pedestrians, so reports our local paper, Uppsala Nytidningen. You can read a working definition of Home Zones at activetrans.org, but according to Sweden's motor vehicle code, it's a section of street where pedestrians have priority over cars and bikes. Motorists are permitted users, as long as they drive at…

I'm a Vlogger and have always loved riding a bike...so the two have fit together like peanut butter and chocolate. I Got an "action camera mount" sent from a friend living in Japan and it has really come in handy. I experiment with different positions and today was risking a little, but I mounted my camera on the fork.…

In January my car was banged up in a hit and run accident while parked on the street outside my building. Overnight someone hit the car parked in front of mine which in turn slammed into my…

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