We enjoyed a bike filled weekend in PDX these last few days. First, on Friday evening, we headed downtown to the North Park Blocks for the Portland Twilight Criterium, with pro racers averaging 30+ mph on the closed streets around a half-mile technical course. The course is situated so that the spectators [...]

Allow me to self-indulge, as I have finally gotten around to taking some pictures of my Surly LHT touring bike, for the Surlyville Long Haul Trucker and Crosscheck owner’s group. The bike is rugged and comfortable, even off-road, and the LHT frame fits me superbly (thanks to many sessions with the Wrench Science fit [...]

Tomorrow marks the start of the Holy Grail of Randonee events, Paris Brest Paris (PBP), the 1200km, 90-hour tour from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, to the Atlantic coast and back. The event, first run in 1891, is the oldest organized cycling event in the world.
Try getting in the spirit of the event and read these interesting accounts [...]

Innovative bike design has been taken to another level over at BikeForest, with their wild tandem couch.  Check out all their wild designs, very fun site.
In other fun news, this weekend is the 12th annual Providence Bridge Pedal, expected to draw over 20,000 cyclists to bike Portland’s 10 bridges spanning the Willamette River. I’ll [...]

I’ve been busy in my long absence from the web (apologies!). Transplanted to the greener pastures of the great PNW, I’ve been busy exploring Portland by bike and participating in the 2007 Pedalpalooza extravagansa, which culminated in yesterday’s most-unusual of bike fairs, the Multnomah County Bike Fair.
From tall bike jousting to bicycle dance troupe [...]

I just discovered the Arizona Brevet & Randonnée association after seeing one of their 400km routes posted on bikely. Unfortunately, the year’s shortest Brevet was the January ride. Maybe by next year I’ll be a good enough rider to try out the 200km ride.

This weekend we had some fun at the annual 24-hour mountain bike relay 24-hours in the Old Pueblo.
Set in the beautiful Sonoran desert, riders race in relay-teams of various sizes (except for a few hard-core solo riders), attempting to complete the 18-mile loop as many times as possible in the 24-hour time frame. [...]

A while back I read on Bike Portland about GMap Pedometer, a free site that allows you to map out bike (or running) routes and make calculations on distances and calories burned using the Google Maps API. The site allows you to save routes as well, and will give you a static URL for [...]

Cars really are a big problem. The more I learn about car pollution, the more dismayed I become that I drive one around. A few years ago, I visited the Smithsonian and remember very clearly a display that illustrated the various sources of ocean oil pollution and their magnitudes. The figure for [...]