When I bought a Kona Dew Plus late last year as a cheapy backup commuting bike, I didn’t plan on making any changes to it.
Then, something strange happened – the Kona started to become my daily ride. The cheapest, ugliest bike I’ve ever bought became my (almost) favourite bike.
It’s the perfect commuter bike — it’s inexpensive (I paid about $400 new), has front and rear disc brakes, 700mm road wheels and being painted a rather metallic minty green, it’s hardly a theft magnet.
Cadbury is running an ad campaign that’s got an interesting cycling theme to it.
www.thebicyclefactory.ca will see Cadbury build and deliver up to 5,000 bikes to Africa based on UPC entries being entered by consumers.
According to the contest rules, eligible products include “Canadian labeled Dentyne*, Stride*, Cadbury*, Maynards*, Trident*, Bubblicious*, Certs* Chiclets*, Clorets*, Jersey Milk* and Halls*, but excluding some seasonal products.”
There are some pretty nice prizes, including a grand prize trip to Africa.
All in all a pretty sweet deal for just eating some candy…
Teaching kids how to ride a bike is easy, but how many parents teach their kids how to ride safely?
There are plenty of websites that provide good safety information for parents to pass along, but none of them are as creepy as the one produced by the Highway Safety Division of Virginia in 1972.
Thanks to Comics With Problems, you can view the comic that features Danny and the Demoncycle – a quaint story about a little boy who wreaks havoc on his neigbourhood with his unsafe cycling.
I’ve been looking around for a while for a good pair of cycling knickers (quit laughing…) but the ones I’ve found are either:
However, I came across a great post on easily hacking some existing pants and making your own pair.
We were hit with a surprise dump of snow several days ago, which made for some interesting and challenging cycling.
When I woke up at 5:30, it had just started to snow. The weather forecast had called for up to 2 cm (about 1″) of snow – no big deal. However, when I left the house at 7:30, there was almost 25 cm (10″).
The flakes were huge, traffic was at a standstill when the cars weren’t sliding into one another, and cyclists were slowly but surely moving along much faster than the other traffic.
I strapped my little digital camera to my bike and slapped together the following cheesy little video of the day’s bike ride to work.
From Bicycling Magazine, some cyclists don’t ride for fun, fitness or camaraderie. They ride to stay alive, earn money, and support their families.
One of Calgary’s newly elected aldermen has already made significant improvements to the city’s support for cycling commuters.
Brian Pincott, alderman for ward 11, also a year-round bicycle commuter, recently introduced a motion at a city council meeting to raise the priority level for snow removal from bike lanes. The motion was passed unanimously.
To read more, see the story on FFWD.
The global cycling community has lost an Internet legend with the passing of Sheldon Brown.
Sheldon was recognized around the world as a passionate cyclist who freely provided years of cycling wisdom on his website, http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/
Rest in peace, Sheldon.
For the past month or so, I’ve been using the Deuter Dry Shield Bike 18 backpack on my daily rides to work.
For years, I’ve been searching for a good waterproof backpack that will keep my stuff dry during the nasty wet Calgary winters. While a good drybag, or even a garbage bag, can usually keep things dry inside a regular pack, the pack itself will still end up soggy and smelly, and it’s a pain to dump everything into a drybag.
The Dry Shield line from Deuter is a waterproof line, which includes a cycling-specific pack — the DS Bike 18.
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