January 2011
9 posts
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Bike of the Week: Ira Ryan City Bike
I am not always one for bespoke city bicycles. I love the idea of packing my belongings on my bicycle and using it to get around town are appealing to me, but the idea of having one specially made for the purpose - and then using it to run errands and lock outside, which would be better performed by a $200 5th-hand vintage bike - makes me cringe. I live in New York, and I’m anal about...
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Bike of the Week: Pegoretti Luigino
I’m not always the biggest fan of Pegoretti paint jobs: they’re interesting and I appreciate the desire to try something new, but my preferences run much more towards simplicity, less is more, understated, etc, etc. Nothing against them, just not always my thing
This Luigino, though, has that combination of elements that appeals to me: classic with modern components, functional,...
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Snowed In
Aside from some shorter ride during my visit to Ohio and a between blizzards commute, January has been a bad month for biking. It’s not the cold, or the wind: those I can handle. It’s the mounds of frozen snow and road slush I’m wary of. The weather hasn’t hovered above 32 for long enough to melt the snow back off the roads, and every time it starts to look promising,...
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2010 Reads
Read in 2010:
January
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Clockers by Richard Price
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories by Raymond Carver
Paris-Roubaix: a Journey Through Hell by Phillipe Bouvet
Stitches by David Small
February
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Pastoralia by George Saunders
March
Everything...
Winter Riding: Color Me Jealous
Got out briefly this morning, but illness has kept me off the bike for a week now. This picture makes me yearn to get out there, cold weather or not.
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Bike of the Week: Kirk Fixed Randonneur
Nice example of a (well-loved) Kirk Fixed Gear Randonneur with a custom front rack.
