One of the local cycling club’s fun annual events is the Chilly Challenge New Year’s Day ride and Chilli Dinner. I usually ride the four miles to the start, ride the 25 mile route with the club, eat some chili, then ride home. In 2010, I learned to unicycle, so three of us unicycled an [...]
For some reason Indiana doesn’t have an explicit law defining a minimum safe passing separation for cars and bikes passing each other. One law was almost passed a couple years ago, but ended up not being enacted. This needs to be addressed. Why is this important? The current law uses a subjective definition of safe [...]
I’ve been over a year since I learned to unicycle and nearly a year since I started municycling. Since you probably haven’t heard the term, muni—short for mountain unicycle—means riding a unicycle off-road. I typically ride at one of the local mountain bike trails with my brother and maybe a friend. I’ve progressed from a [...]
I got to ride a unicycle with a 36 inch diameter wheel: It’s amazing how smoothly the large tire rolls over bumps. Once you get it spinning, it wants to keep going. It will take a while to get used to sitting so high off the ground though.
Learning is strange. Sometimes you get something, and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you pound your head for hours trying to solve a problem, then later go back to it and solve it in minutes. I have two good examples: This spring, I decided to learn to unicycle. And not just riding on smooth streets to [...]
Bicycling around Indiana’s country roads, I’ve noticed that many drivers make unnecessarily dangerous passes. The road is wide open, but they still come uncomfortably close to hitting me. But unlike the typical close pass, the driver continues to move to the left after passing me, often driving in the opposite lane for up to a [...]
I’ve been learning to unicycle the past few weeks, and just got to the point where I can go an a 7 kilometer ride. So, while everything is fresh in my mind, here are some of the tips that helped me learn: Put all your weight on the seat. As a bicyclist, I’m used to [...]
My mountain bike lost a wheel. Well, not really. I’ve been learning to unicycle, and am now good enough to ride the easiest part of the closest dirt trail. Wooh.
If you are reading this, you probably already know that I really like bicycles. I frequently bike to work, and go on several rides each week. Two years ago I switched the type of saddle I ride. My current saddle is a Selle San Marco Ponza. I can easily ride on it for hours very [...]
Koehlinger Cycling and Fitness is now out of business. Koehlinger’s was where I bought my first ‘real’ (from a bike store, not a department store) bike, a steel Giant mountain bike. My sister still rides that bike. Koehlinger’s was the best place to find small parts for repairing older bikes, but I was more likely [...]