In last Friday's post I included a news story in which a Fred collided with a bear. Well, that very same day I had an equally harrowing encounter when I was very nearly attacked by a goose: You can be certain that when I saw the geese I gave them plenty of room. For one... Continue Reading →

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and I can feel you've got antses in your chamoiseses, but you're not going anywhere until you finish this quiz. So sit still dammit! Of course it's also Fleet Week here in New York, and they no longer close the west side path to cyclists while it's happening, which... Continue Reading →

A few days ago I was completely baffled by this tweet: https://twitter.com/TransAlt/status/1660480762041204737?s=20 The grainy picture, the lone guy in business attire, the apparent lack of actual gridlock... Then I got caught up on my TV watching and realized it was from the latest episode of "Succession." I'm still not sure using smarmy opportunist Greg to... Continue Reading →

Just in case you thought New York City didn't take its bike infrastructure seriously, check out this baby: https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT/status/1658910154451034134?s=20 It's a small e-assisted vehicle for doing bike lane maintenance, which makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is that for some reason it requires the operator to wear a helme(n)t: Whereas absolutely none of the... Continue Reading →

Further to yesterday's post, it looks like the ER missed a fracture after all. Fortunately it sounds like some quality sling time should take care of it. But the offroad division of Team Tan Tenovo will have to wait just a little bit longer to fight another day: Meanwhile, someone's got to do some riding... Continue Reading →

This past Friday, Outside posted my latest column, which is about why bike racing is good: It's now Monday, and I take it all back. Well, okay, not really, but the timing is all rather ironical, because the very next day my elder son and I headed out to a mountain bike race on Long... Continue Reading →

One of the best things about living in a big city is that nobody's selfish when it comes to using public space: The Department of Sanitation has marked this bicycle as "derelict," and the owner (or at least I'm assuming it's the owner) is none too pleased: Well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to... Continue Reading →

Not too long ago I mentioned that for years now I've been unwittingly riding right past not only a ghost train station but a monument to Confederate war veterans. Well, yesterday morning I found myself in that same spot once again. So I figured I'd go check out the monument: Even I, a strident cyclist,... Continue Reading →

Firstly, further to yesterday's post, I'd like to thank all of you who mentioned the many memes ("many memes" is fun to say) I heedlessly omitted: I'd also like to thank the commenter who created this: I'll be selling a limited run of signed* full-sized prints at $2,500 a pop. *[Signed by Bib Shorts Guy,... Continue Reading →

In curating this blog over the years, I've made frequent use of certain images. These eventually became what in my day we used to call "inside jokes," but what people now call "memes." There was the Lone Wolf: There was the Time-Traveling Retro-Fred from the Planet Tridork Bret: There was Recumbabe: And of course there... Continue Reading →