Cavendish
I know the whole sports hero thing is dangerous, especially in bike racing, so let’s just leave it at this: it’s fun to watch this kid ride a bike:
Archive of posts filed under the cycling category.
Happy birthday to me, Pt. II
It has long been my tradition to celebrate my birthday by riding my age, but this year’s attempt got a bit fouled up. I’m not really old enough for my current age to be a huge challenge, so I usually try to dress it up a bit for fun. Last year, for example, I spent …
Wednesday Bird Blogging (Bike Blogging?)
I almost crashed the bike this morning, distracted as I zoomed on the bike trail beneath Interstate 25 near the north end of Albuquerque. The bridge abutments are prime swallow turf, and I was looking to see if any have returned from their southern sojourn. I almost took a header into the trailside railing, and …
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Why We Ride
Scot, on his commute home yesterday in some sort of dry hurricane: I came very close to being simply swept into a car waiting alongside me at the light at MLK and Broadway. My teeth were sandpaper by the time I got home, and my face a circle of pitted dark encircling the clean patch …
Seen on the bike
Over the last couple of days’ riding: A pair of crows harassing a hawk. Two guys up in a cherry-picker using a high-pressure hose to clean pigeon shit off of the Blakes Lotaburger sign. A couple of old hippies with a shopping cart. Asked us where we were going. “Up in the mountains,” we told …
Sunset Canyon
Sunset Canyon is quite possibly my favorite mile of cycling in Albuquerque: View Larger Map If you like to climb (as I do) and you’re stuck in town either because of time constraints, or because it’s winter, there are a series of short, steep, lovely climbs on the neighborhood streets that make up the Sandia …
Feral Pigeons: Notes From a Blog Post I Never Got Around to Writing
Went bicycling looking for killdeer. Found one, but in the process also saw more than a hundred pigeons. (I counted. Somewhere I wrote down the number. It was something like 167, but when the subject is counting pigeons, you shouldn’t trust three-digit accuracy.) There’s a great book about feral pigeons, called Feral Pigeons. Google books …
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Elasticity
I took a crack this morning at explaining, by example, three things that are currently going on in our U.S. energy economy. The first is the way gasoline consumption has remained depressed, even as prices dropped. The second is the way the drop in consumption has been disproportionately carried out by people near the bottom …
The Immutability of Scripture
One of religion’s longstanding problems is the immutability of scripture – the inevitable struggle over the inability of a fixed text to respond to changing conditions. You can see this as Jews try to keep the Sabbath, and in modern fundementalists’ struggle over shellfish. I was thinking deeply about this issue today on my bike …
On Cycling and $4 Gas
A changing picture: $2.00 gas: “Get off the road, you fucking faggot!” $4.00 gas: “Dude! Awesome bike!” (h/t Nora)