Not Even Fully Loaded: Another Grocery Run
Just how much can you haul on a bike ride to the grocery store? Depends on how many bags you have! When we lived in Spokane the grocery store nearest our house was just over 1.5 miles away uphill, which meant I got to race downhill fully loaded when I made a grocery run via [...]
On a Roll with Michelle S, Olympia
The occasional “On a Roll with” series started with women in Spokane since the blog originally focused on biking in Spokane. Now that I have a statewide role at the Bicycle Alliance of Washington I’ve expanded the geography to feature women from all over the state. If you have a woman to nominate (and please do nominate yourself!) drop an [...]
Informal Impressions of the Breezer Uptown Infinity LS
Thanks to my friend Wilma Gyswyt Flanagan I got to test-pedal a Breezer Uptown Infinity LS for a few miles. These are my initial impressions and in no way constitute the kind of exhaustive review I would write if I put it through a lot more mileage. And then there’s the fact that I’m no [...]
Getting Started Bike Commuting: A Blogspedition inside Bike Style
The blog now stands at over 170 posts after a year of writing. Lots of advice is sprinkled throughout every post, along with my ponderings and miscellany on bike policy, infrastructure creation, and other aspects of becoming a bike-friendlier world. This post serves as a categorized round-up of many of the posts you may find helpful [...]
Grocery Run: Impossible!
The media jumped all over recent findings about how easily the nation could lose a few pounds, save billions of dollars, live longer, and clean the air, by . . . wait for it . . . riding a bike. NPR, Huffington Post and more all covered this. Benefits come not just from the light [...]
Bike Commuting 101: Carrying Stuff
I’m not a backpack gal. I don’t like the sweat or the weight messing with my center of gravity. I do, however, haul a fair amount some days. You can find a variety of types of bags with different ways of attaching to the rack or to you. Unfortunately most bike shops carry an assortment [...]
Hassle Factor: Biking vs. Driving
I’m pretty much a 100% bike commuter till it’s too slippery-scary in winter, then I switch to Spokane Transit. I didn’t get here overnight—the transition took place over a couple of years or so. I regularly talk to people who sound incredulous that I manage all the “hassles” of bike commuting. In biking as in life, [...]
A Trunk for Your Bike: Donkey Boxx Review
That moment where you buy more than you can carry and go stow your purchases in the trunk of the car? You can have something similar on your bike with the Donkey Boxx. I’ve had one on my bike for over three months and now I can’t imagine being without it on a utility/transportation bike. [...]
Losing Weight
No, this isn’t the grapefruit diet, or the all-you-can-eat diet, or the “use this one silly trick to blast stomach flab” diet. It’s the purse diet. As in, when was the last time you took everything out of your purse and then decided what to put back in? Or—brace yourself—switched to a smaller purse? That’s essentially what [...]
The Search for the Perfect Purse: It May Just Be a Bike Bag
Raise your hand, ladies, if you’re like me in my former life: Always buying another purse in search of the perfect purse. That’s the one that doesn’t weigh too much totally empty, that has the right dividers and organizers inside, that has a comfy handle or strap, that will fit a file folder or laptop [...]
