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Two items in The NY Times today: The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning A guest editorial by by author John Vaillant talks about what is happening. Flying over the middle of the country recently, he was struck by what was missing:...
by xaxnar
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 07:56 AM PST
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Once upon a time when I was little, we lived on a farm on a dirt road, a thousand miles from nowhere. Now this was not one of those picture book farms with white rail fences and pretty barns. It was a labor house in a crick bottom where pavement and...
by babushka
on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 06:26 PM PST
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On October 16, dog Busta and I started a long planned bicycle ride on the Katy Trail. It was going to be a quiet retreat to reflect on where where are and what we can do. We didn’t make it. Here is the report. We have a nice bicycle and trailer that we...
by greenandblue
on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 10:04 AM PDT
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My dad sat me in the seat of his 1966 International pick up with a four speed manual transmission and started teaching me to drive it when I was about 12. My first car was a 1966 plymouth valiant that I bought for $200.00 out in Buffalo Wyoming, it...
by KLWhite
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 04:03 AM PDT
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Er, make that Busta and I didn't get crushed by RAGBRAI. There is no crushing of this route in July on our ride. It was a test of survival going in. We made it. Thanks to my wonderful spouse for taking better care of me than I do, right up to the bout...
by greenandblue
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 09:50 AM PDT
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We came into RAGBRAI wrecked. Stayed in St Louis for a family funeral and drove all night just to arrive three days late and set up at dawn for the Tuesday 50 mile ride from Ames to Des Moines. It was brutally sunny and hot. Did I mention our load?...
by greenandblue
on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 09:43 PM PDT
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This is a follow up to Busta RAGBRAI. Busta and I are well. Well, I am battling plant poisons and microbes on my skin after putting in a fence Tuesday, so a delay helps for that. It’s not bad enough to keep us from Sioux City, IA and the start of...
by greenandblue
on Fri Jul 21, 2023 at 02:40 PM PDT
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In my latest heartbreaking failure, I was fired by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) for bringing my rented bicycle into the APHL Newborn Screening Symposium 2022 organized by the Newborn Screening Technical assistance and Evaluation...
by greenandblue
on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 02:37 AM PDT
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Back in April, a cyclist was travelling on the roads of Deer Park, a Houston suburb. There, a white Jeep mercilessly sped beside him. The cyclist then decides to flip off the Jeep driver, who would later be identified as 50-year-old Robert Aaron Glenn,...
by OK Dodo
on Tue Jul 05, 2022 at 09:43 PM PDT
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We like to do family bike trips along trails in the woods behind our home and in some parks around here. The worst crashes I’ve taken have all been the result of clip-in shoes/pedals that kept me locked to the bike a split second too long. Today, Pres...
by JennaT
on Sat Jun 18, 2022 at 09:53 AM PDT
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This is a look back at a 270 mile bicycle ride and dog run in mid-May with greenandblue and Busta from St Louis to Columbia, MO and back, mostly on the Katy Trail. It was a great trip highlighted by stops to learn about urban agriculture and activism....
by greenandblue
on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 09:31 AM PDT
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This ride is for Bob Johnson and sfbob. Hours and hours of pushing to roll a little further is so fun. It's hard as hell, but there's nothing better for me to do. Check out my overloaded rig. There's no motor yet, but I've got the 50 W solar to handle...
by greenandblue
on Sun May 15, 2022 at 12:20 PM PDT
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45 years ago yesterday, I went up on top of a steep hill with two clocks and six friends. Our object was to determine for all time which of us was the fastest down a long steep hill on our 40 year old balloon tire bikes, which we had modified by adding...
by RepackRider
on Fri Oct 22, 2021 at 12:36 PM PDT
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Me and Busta are riding RAGBRAI next week, and he’ll be running a lot of it too. RAGBRAI, Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is more than just a bike ride, it is an epic eight-day rolling festival of bicycles, music, food, camaraderie,...
by greenandblue
on Sun Jul 16, 2023 at 09:08 AM PDT
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I love organized bicycle rides, starting with my first one in 1983, Rosarito to Ensenada, 50 miles and one brutal hill ending in a big party at Hussong’s. I have a dubious love affair with the Chilly Hilly. It’s a 33 mile circumnavigation of Bainbridge...
by BrownsBay
on Sat Aug 07, 2021 at 08:10 AM PDT
with 18 Recommends
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What to do on a rainy day in Central Ohio? We took a drive out to New Bremen to see the Bicycle Museum of America. New Bremen is about 90 minutes northwest of Columbus or an hour north of Dayton. The bicycle started with a volcanic eruption. True...
by Major Kong
on Sun Jul 11, 2021 at 12:11 PM PDT
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It was just 40 years ago, late summer of 1979. For a couple of months Gary Fisher had been riding a custom balloon tire bike he had built on a frame made by Tom Ritchey. I had a bike built by Joe Breeze a year earlier. Gary and I had been roommates for...
by RepackRider
on Tue Aug 27, 2019 at 11:51 PM PDT
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Four months ago, I was hopping mad. Literally. Not because of the stupid, hateful or venal thing tRump tweeted that day, or because our nation put 14 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that day, but because I had stubbed my...
by avatarabbiehoffman
on Fri Jul 19, 2019 at 07:01 PM PDT
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Yesterday was National Bike-to-Work Day, for those who care about such things (and even those who don't). As things turned out, yesterday was the one day that self the loser didn't bike to work. ...
by chingchongchinaman
on Sat May 18, 2019 at 06:18 PM PDT
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Sometimes life doesn’t work out quite the way you planned it...well actually, that happens a lot, but anyhoo...that happened to a fella named Dean. And here’s how those “best laid plans” ...
by Gwennedd
on Sun Apr 07, 2019 at 07:00 PM PDT
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