Shane Stokes - CyclingTips It’s a well-earned rest, although he’ll continue to cycle for pleasure. At 106 years of age, French rider Robert Marchand has ended his competitive career, with a friend saying that he will no longer seek to set new records. The rider stunned the world of cycling in February 2012 when he… Continue reading Anyone Can Bike – Still cycling at 106 – 16 miles in a hour
By M. Glenn I’m very pleased with my ELF, which has now logged over 2,000 miles in a variety of conditions. My primary purpose for buying it was to help me stay physically fit during my sunset years. I’m 80 years old, with slowly dimming eyesight, stiffening joints, weakening muscles, and slowing reaction times. After suffering some hard… Continue reading I pedaled my ELF from Virginia to Arkansas
“That’s not snow, that’s a light dusting!” I can already predict some comments on this week’s video. For the people in north-west Europe, not used to heavy snow, it was a bit more than that! With snow from Friday to Monday, leading to a “code red weather alarm” that last day in the Netherlands, public… Continue reading Commuting via bike in a winter wonderland
"Cycling may be easier than walking for two-thirds of disabled people, but disabled cyclists often remain invisible to society. Many don’t realize that more than a quarter of disabled commutes in this university city are made by bike." Most urban infrastructures are built by able-bodied engineers, who may not realise that bollards, speed bumps, curbs… Continue reading A rolling walking stick’: why do so many disabled people cycle?
Posted 06/01/17 by Suzanne Matyas in Trail Use There are countless special places in America, but only about 100 have been distinguished enough to be called national monuments. Granted protection by Congress or the president by way of the Antiquities Act, these emblems of our country’s landscape allow us—from generation to generation—to learn, discover and… Continue reading Five Rail-Trails for For Cruising thru National Monuments
One hundred years ago, something momentous happened in U.S. cities: They started connecting their first full networks of paved streets. Link by link throughout the late 1910s, cities from coast to coast turned mud and gravel to asphalt and concrete, creating the first continuous routes for people to comfortably roll in private cars from homes… Continue reading Commuting via bike can be safe and easy
The best Christmas mall parking spot ever!
By Esther Lumsdon - I try to commute to work by bike twice per week. Starting around Halloween, I get to enjoy biking past holiday light displays on my route home, since it’s dark. Halloween and Diwali are the first light displays. Every couple of years my husband and I manage to find a dry… Continue reading Looking at Holiday Lights by Bike
