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DIY Front Bucket Panniers (Wheel Revolution)
Pannier bags often crush fragile items like lettuce or squish loaves of bread. Often they are too narrow for really mundane items like … watermelons or pumpkins. Pannier bags are of ten pretty expensive, and they are a chore to wash. A bucket is easy to clean, and if you haul chemicals (like petrol) a…
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On Language by Stephen Fry (video)
Are you a winging pedant? You might feel like one after watching this.
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Touching Story of Recumbent Bike Surpassing Physical Therapy (Wheel Revolution)
I haven’t read such a touching story about how much a bicycle has changed a child’s life before. The Boy got a new lease on life, and an alternative to physical therapy sessions that were the bane of his existence. Now he has a way to exercise that focused on his interests and abilities, rather…
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Paleolithic Bread (NYT)
This is really a fluff article from the NY Times, which is kinda sad. It implies that the Paleo diet (meat and raw veggies, very low carb) might be invalidated by this discovery which pushes the date of the use of flour to 30,000 years ago. However, it doesn’t explain why that actually threatens the…
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Tips for Teaching Bicycling (ibike.org)
Good set of tips for teaching kids to ride bikes. Wish I had done my homework and read this before embarking on teaching Liam. I might have had a much easier time of it. Tip for Teaching Bicycling / Learning to Bicycle Ride.
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Profile: Hilary Archbold (bikecommuters.com)
Hilary Archbold is a mother, grad student, and bicycle commuter in Ann Arbor. I love this quote because this summer I watched bicycle balance “click” with my own son: My daughter was a very shaky beginning bicyclist when we got to the island, and by the end of the week made the eight mile trip…
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Bellingham nurse practitioner bicycles! (bellinghamherald.com)
Jody Hoppis is a great example of why Bellingham is 10th in the nation for bicycle commuting. She should be a great inspiration to other mothers in Bellingham to at least bicycle their kids to the grocery store more often. I got around all winter last year on my mountain bike. Getting around this winter might…
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DIY Helmet Visor
The dinky visor that came with my inexpensive Bell helmet is a joke. It does not help with the low-angle sun in the fall. It will not help with a downpour of rain. So, like a good mechanic, I cut apart a gallon water jug, and tacked the two side panels I cut out under…
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Tough winter looms for Pa. Nw (Seattle PI)
Good time to order my Schwalbe Winter Marathons. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/427725_weather04.html
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Diane Dulkan’s “Joyride”
I bet if you like to read while you drive like when you’re puttering along in rush hour molasses, this book would make you bike to work the next day. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=696058
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