Essay: Ride more, worry less
By Jeffrey Stern What do we know about even the most well thought out plans? Well, they more often than not don’t pan out as expected. But only if you let them derail your...
Category: Opinion
Opinion: Invest in your community, ride your bike & share your car!
Our generation may be bonkers about the “van life”, but what about that bike life? In this continually overcomplicated, technology saturated world that seems to grow by leaps and bounds with each passing day...
Opinion: Love the bike you have
By Jeffrey Stern We’ve all experienced bike lust. You know, those days that your friend rolls up to your group’s adventure on a bike so new the chain is still silver, the hairs on...
In Pursuit of Endless Adventure: A Lifestyle
By Jeffrey Stern It goes without saying, but sometimes it still needs to be said: we’re lucky. Much of the United States offers an undeniably unique opportunity for people of all types, abilities, and...
Diary of a Winter Commuter: Just Keep Pedaling
Diary of a Winter Commuter is a detailed account of riding in Wisconsin during one of the harshest winters in the past 25 years (2014). Rich Sweet recently turned his journal entries into a...
Opinion: Praising Patagonia for preserving my puffy
Good gear isn’t cheap, but I believe it’s worth every penny. Forget the upfront cost. I’ll willingly plunk down my moola for a quality product that’s built to last a lifetime, figuring that I’ll...
Opinion: 5 reasons to ditch the trainer and ride outside this winter
It’s that time of year when my Strava feed slowly becomes more and more full of trainer rides and Zwifters. Meanwhile, people like my husband are going backpacking in the single digits and getting...
Opinion: Dockless bike sharing creating chaos
My immediate response when I heard about the dockless bike-share was “More butts on bikes, great.“ Then I started to ask questions. “So what do you do with it when you’re done?” “I could...
Connecting and converting: Finding balance in a busy world
By Jeffrey Stern We all know them, those friends that appreciate the convenience and simplicity of integrating more bike riding into their daily lives, but rarely do it. Why? It’s hard to put a...
Two-Wheeled Musings with Paul de Valera
By Paul de Valera My bicycle is my best friend, my only true ally in this world. My bicycle will never betray me, well it may break and throw me off of into a...