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 for [...]
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) is hosting [...]
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 I [...]
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 [...]
Work Week 24 (2 Feb – 6 Feb) –
It was an uneventful and short week. I rode 3 days for a total of 46 miles.
2-Feb-09
Home to Bldg 40
Commute
6.5
2-Feb-09
Bldg 40 to Home
Commute
6.7
4-Feb-09
Home to Bldg 40
Commute
6.5
4-Feb-09
Bldg 40 to Home
Commute
6.7
6-Feb-09
Home to Bldg 40
Commute
6.39
6-Feb-09
Bldg 40 to Home
Commute
6.7
I didn’t make any ride notes.
Work Week 25 (9 Feb – [...]
The below is the text of a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News regarding this article.
Dear Editor,
The January 6th, 2009 edition of the Jacksonville Daily News featured an article titled “Rails-to-Trails bridge earns state engineering award”. This article unfairly portrays the Rails-to-Trails project, and the associated pedestrian bridge, as unused and unpopular [...]
I’m not a big fan of making “New Year’s resolutions”, but I like having goals. So, here’s my list of goals for 2009:
Commute 5,000 miles by bicycle – This is pretty easy. In January my commute will extend from 6.5ish miles to 11ish miles. That’ll make for 112ish mile weeks, 450ish mile months and over [...]
Another short week for commuting by bicycle. Illness kept me home Tuesday and Wednesday.
There’s only two notable things to mention: I installed new grips and a new cyclometer on Day-Tripper.
The grips are Bontrager grips with more cushion and a slightly extended palm-rest. So far, they’re much more comfortable than the set originally on the [...]
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