Answer this 3 part question correctly and I will send you a “Gas Sucks, Ride a Bike” Poster courtesy of KHS Bicycles.
In what city did Eddy Merckx set The Hour record?
What was the record time?
What bike was he riding?
Email me the correct answers, sorry, but members of the bicyclebloggers.com network are not eligible.
I will announce [...]

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Well today is my last day at my job. I had already started my new job last week but decided to hang out any the one I’m leaving today to fulfill my 2 weeks notice. If any of you remember, the job I’m leaving is the one where I had to get up aty 1:30 [...]

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Man that title made me feel old…Back in the day, riding bikes was the coolest thing you can do. Well at least until you got your driver’s license. But for the most part almost everyone I knew growing up rode bikes everywhere. My friend and I would ride our bikes from one town to another [...]

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This is a great article. Talks about how a grant is going to help encourage kids to ride their bikes to school as well as educate them on the how to do it right. Another great thing about this grant is that a large portion of the money will go towards improving infrastructure which include, [...]

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I used to tell people that I was a roadie that commutes to work on a bicycle.

Lately, I’m a bike commuter that likes to road ride and Mountain Bike. How about you, what else do you like to ride?
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I had a buddy that always complained about his bike’s deraillleur rubbing or not being able to shift correctly. Today I received my free weekly newsletter from RoadBikeRider.com that described his problem: Cross Chaining
What is cross chaining? “Cross chaining is when you have the chain going across the gears stretching it laterally. If you are [...]

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…unless, of course, you ride a bike to work.

If you happened to hit the New York Times yesterday, you probably couldn’t help but notice that massive flooding shut down all but a handful of our subway lines in the morning. A massive thunderstorm began sometime around 5:30 yesterday morning (at least that’s what time it [...]

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A while back my brother Randy, a fellow bike commuter and staff writer for the site, made his own messenger bag and posted the how to on the site.

So if you haven’t already seen it, you can read all about it HERE. He even posted a video on how the quick tug and pull strap [...]

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Do you have a funny story, an article, a review, a commuter profile or something that you want to get off your chest (bike related, of course). Email it to me and I will post in on the site.
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Being a Bike Geek, I love gadgets. Since I carry most of my gadgets on my rear pockets, it could be dangerous when I reach back to get one of them.

I was recently contacted by UltimateGadgetMount.Com and they sent me an ultimate gadget mount to ride with.

I’ll keep you posted on the performance of the [...]

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