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Showing posts with label Bicycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bicycling. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Back in Panama: Finding Better Roads Near the Panama Canal

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  Today is the seventh day since I arrived in Panama.  After some very difficult rides back in August, I have found better roads and hope to...
Friday, August 30, 2024

The (Pot)Hole Story -- Panama is a tough place to ride

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  First Week in Panama--The Daily Downpour I bought a bike the first full day I was in Panama.  The bike is great. I wrote about it here . ...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

First Flat Fixed: Pinched in a Pothole Next to the Panama Canal

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Today I had my first flat in Panama.  The pothole was not quite as bad as the one above, but for those who kvetch about potholes in Pennsylv...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Buy or Rent? I Bought a Bike Right Next to the Panama Canal

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  My second day in Panama, I bought a Giant SCR 16-speed aluminum road bike.  I bought the bike for $500 at a used bike shop in a residentia...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Thunder Ridge Family Event: Lauren Runs, I Ride

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After my rain-soaked descent of Thunder Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway, my daughter Lauren, who lives in Richmond, returned with me for Rou...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Pain Up; Rain Down: Riding the Blue Ridge Parkway

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  The climb to Thunder Ridge on Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway is a smooth, steady, winding climb of 3,300 feet at five percent for just ...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Bike Year Begins with a Great Week!

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Times Square at Rush Hour I love to ride.  This past week I had had the chance to ride in some of my favorite places--places that are almost...
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Friday, September 15, 2023

Paris Training Race and Recovery

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  After riding in the Alps on the weekend, I was able to ride in Paris twice.  On Tuesday, I went to the Hippodrome in the southwest corner...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Life-Long Bike Obsession Began with a Trike Trip

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"Suicide Cycling Around the World" That's the title a former co-worker said I should use for a memoir.  Another friend was enc...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

A Brave Woman in Trumplandia

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  This morning I was riding east from Lancaster toward New Holland borough, one of the towns that ring the city of Lancaster.  As I rode I p...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Returning from Ukraine with Canadian Cyclists Going to Auschwitz

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Ride for the Living, Auschwitz  In June of 2017, I rode from Belgrade, Serbia, to Lviv, Ukraine. Along the way, I rode in Bosnia, Croatia,...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Reliable Randomness Makes Air Apparent

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Every yard or meter that a bicyclist or pilot or runner or driver or anyone else travels through the air means passing through trillions and...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

I am officially in love with Strava.

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I am back to riding and in the absence of racing I am going up and down hills and and comparing myself to other riders on Strava--socially d...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Physics of Descending on a Bicycle

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When a solo rider or a group of riders descend any hill, particularly a steep hill, why are some of the riders so much faster than others?  ...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Rural Drivers Hating Bicyclists is Nothing New

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In 2004, a bicycle hater with the unlikely name John F. Kennedy threw tacks on the road when he knew bicyclists would run over them and get ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Amtrak Finally Allows Bikes--And Charges More for Them Than for Passengers

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  For 25 years I have ridden the Amtrak's Keystone trains between Lancaster and Philadelphia, as well as regional trains between Washing...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

When Walking I Don't Get Angry: Cycling is Different

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Slowly healing.  Today I saw the surgeon who put my arm back together with plates and screws  and considerable skill.  Tomorrow I begin...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Steel Vintage Bikes: Awesome Cafe in Berlin

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Steel Vintage Bikes in Berlin is a café decorated with steel racing bikes from the second half of the 20 th Century. They also roas...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Nuts About Cycling: The Next Call After a Broken Collarbone

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My collarbone after I crashed Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, I decided to get a vasectomy, but it was spring an...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Riding in China: Sprinting Away from a Snake

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In July 1999 I made my first trip to China. It was a direct trip to Beijing and back. Between April 1998 and July 2001 I went overseas ev...