Bike Blog

It turns out, at least out here in California, if you want to do anything truly interesting on the bike, you need to be able to deal with a lot of climbing. And climbing is actually kind of hard for me, because climbing is very much a power-to-weight sort of thing and, despite getting lighter recently, I've got a good amount of excess weight. So, while I can sprint up a short hill at 20mph, long hills present a problem...

Racing up overpasses, minivans with rap music, and cars with big frickin' lasers on their heads...

It ends up that, given the massive numbers of different bike makers and models, it's very rare that you'll ever meet somebody with exactly the same bike. Even if you get a fairly popular bike that's selling like hotcakes...

Maybe a cyclist to actually admire?

I had not heard about the Jevons Paradox before. Quite interesting, actually.