Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “bikes”
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Spending four figures on bike stuff and trying to remember it’s still cheaper than a second car.
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Five flats between two bikes in six weeks (four in the last two) can’t be a world record, but it’s a personal best that I’m not interested in beating anytime soon. Wishing the bus came closer to my house, even though that commute is even longer.
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I never mind paying fines at a library, and I never grumble about a bill at a bike shop. Both institutions deserve all the money they can charge me.
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Spring and fall have the best weather in all respects except for figuring out what to wear for one’s bike commute.
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Got on a bike today for the first time in months. COVID has shown the flipside of tying my exercise so closely to my commute.
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Bike commuting today for the first time in 5 months, Also, commuting today for the first time in 5 months.
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TIL that if you don’t keep an e-bike adequately charged, all of that fancy-but-heavy pedal assist equipment is as much of a liability for your commute as it usually is an asset.
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Bike commuting adventure of the day: Finding all the places in my office where I can discretely hang up wet clothes from a rainy commute (thank goodness for my closet full of dry work clothes).
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Sometimes, being a bike commuter means spending the first 30 minutes of your work day fixing a spring clasp on a pannier.
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Hard to beat coming into the office with a post-bike commute endorphin rush. Doesn’t happen every morning, but it’s always welcome when it does.
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Nothing reinforces my professorial credibility quite like the wet bike gear from my rainy commute draped over the chairs in my office.