It’s been too long since I’ve posted and for that I’m sorry. It seems like the hours and days seem to speed by so quickly that there’s barely enough time to do the required stuff. It makes the nice-to-do stuff fall by the wayside. I’ve ridden the Day-Tripper to work three days this week. That [...]
Since the bicycle was unridden for the winter, it was the perfect time to get some upgrades. I’ve already talked about the controls upgrades in January. More recently, I’ve gotten a set of Shimano M324 pedals. These babies have a platform on one side and clipless on the other. Flexibility is the purpose. Local cycling [...]
It was a harsh winter in NC and that, along with my laziness, kept me from riding to work…And generally anywhere else. So there’s been a lot of driving. And I’ve been in several nearly-accidents. Just today I was almost hit twice by the same car! And the traffic…I’ve spent uncountable hours behind the wheel [...]
Spring has made it’s way, finally, to Jacksonville. Soon, I’ll be riding the bicycle to work. I’m excited about it, too. More, soon.
Saturday I picked up the Day-Tripper from The Bicycle Shop with a new set of handlebars, brake levers and bar-con gear shifters…And man, let me tell you, she’s a beautiful creature! The goal here isn’t to mimic a road bike or gain speed or anything like that. The goal is to provide more hand positions [...]
I provide my usual and all-too-often needed apologies for being a less-than-stellar blogger. This post is a mixed-bag of stuff that’s been floating around my head these few weeks. The race for Jacksonville’s City Council There hasn’t been much public campaigning. Mr. Hunter Hadley, Jr (At-Large) has yard signs posted. Councilwoman Reva Sullivan (Ward 2) [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, the NC House Transportation Committee is meeting Tuesday and will consider House Bill 1451 – Bicycle Protection Act. If you live in North Carolina, I hope you’ll write your representatives, especially if they’re members of the House Transportation Committee, as is Mr. Cleveland. The following is the text of the email [...]
May is National Bicycle Month. May 11th to 15th is Bicycle to Work Week and May 15th is Bicycle to Work Day. If you can’t ride all month or all week, shoot for Friday. Think you can’t commute by bicycle? Guess again, my friends. Unfortunately, there are no events sponsored by the City of Jacksonville [...]
The week was full of incidents and accidents. Only one involved me directly, though. During last week’s DownEast Cyclist Club meeting, I heard that one of the bicyclists that routinely ride the Jacksonville Rails-to-Trails multi-use path had been involved in a nasty crash along the fenced area of Highway 24/Lejeune Blvd near the Camp Lejeune [...]
It’s been more than six months of full-time bicycle commuting and I’ve lived through near-misses by inattentive drivers, being yelled at and Jacksonville’s less-than-stellar bicycling environment. And, while I haven’t used the bicycle for enough other-than-commuting trips, I will be as the weather gets better. I’m going to stop publishing the weekly riding reports. They’ve [...]
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