Tag: bicycling
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[Link] Hell on Two Wheels, Until the E-Bike’s Battery Runs Out
Hell on Two Wheels, Until the E-Bike’s Battery Runs Out. The New Yorker writes a nice article on e-bikes. For context, this past year I bought a Tern HSD P9 Performance ebike and love it! HT: Roman Meliška on Mastodon.
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Photo ride
After work, my bike was calling my name. As it was too late for caffeine, I headed off to my friends: the wheat field and the power pole. One of the advantages of touring around on a bike is how easy it is to jump off and take a couple of pictures. For once, the…
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Lunch Ride
I rode by the same field and took pretty much the same picture. And then I took a different way home. One nice thing about a slower bike is that I explore closer to home. I hope you are finding time for safe adventures, too!
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Field of green
The last couple of days, it’s rained in the mornings. That’s a good time to go for a bike ride. So, off I went. I found a quiet country road I hadn’t ridden down before and found a field of grain. The next day, I rode down a road I had ridden down before and…
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Rock Creek Trail on Darth
The past couple of evenings, I’ve gone for rides on my new-to-me bike Darth. Staying close-ish to home, I visited Orenco park and the Rock Creek Trail. The meadow has sure grown since 2014.
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A day in the gorge
Biking Coming to the weekend, Jamison said he wanted to try biking a new section of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail. It sounded like a lot of fun, so we loaded up our bikes and headed to Wyeth. Turns out, it was opening day for this new section of trail. We discovered a…
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Sunriver family vacation — 2019
Friday Five bikes on the car and we’re ready for fun. We have arrived at Sunriver for our summer family vacation of 2019. Warning: This is a long post with lots of pictures. Enjoy! ;-) Unlike some of our earlier visits to Sunriver, we have no biking mileage goals. Our goals are relaxation, fun, and…
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Why is bike share safer than regular biking?
A new study looks at why bike share is so much safer than regular biking. Surprisingly, a combination of inexperienced riders riding heavy bikes in urban areas without helmets (along with a few other factors) results in safety.
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5K!
Today I completed a 5K. No, not a 5-kilometer race, but 5,000 miles on my bike since my family gave it to me on Fathers’ Day 2013. Yeah, it’s hard for me to believe, too. :-) Ride on!