Author: Rob

Why We Shouldn’t Bike with a Helmet

I will seldom post a “hey look at this” but I liked this one.

Mikael Colville-Andersen giving a speech at TEDx in Copenhagen on Why We Shouldn’t Bike with a Helmet.  Grant at Rivendell tipped me to this through their Blog.  This is the most concise expression I have yet seen on brining bicycles back into our culture as everyday transportation and not just play things or exercise equipment.   Enjoy, and spread the word.  Actively riding in your own community every day will help to improve the quality of your rides, be the front edge of the rising tide.

Regularly scheduled posting will catch up later this week, Daylight Saving Time is spinning me sideways still.

Stuffing a Bicycle Frame Bag

What do you put in a frame bag for daily use?  Today it was my Houdini jacket, one dozen eggs and two avocados.

Most days is has my Gorillapod with extended legs as well as the Houdini,

On longer rides can get a 2L Platypus bag of water in there with the jacket and a first aid kit with room to spare (I still need to grab a picture of that). The most asked question by people on the street suprisingly is, “do you keep a fly rod in there”? and if I was going camping it would be the perfect place to keep the tent poles.

When I first made the bag I knew it was going to see more than touring duty, but it turns out to be incredibly useful every day.

Breakfast Date

While passing through the Harbor we witnessed another Tsunami surge, the tide in this picture is about 4 or 5 feet higher than it should be.  It came up and drained back out in 6 minutes or so, pretty incredible to watch.  Apparently this has been ongoing since 9am yesterday

Then breakfast and a toodle around town on the way home.

Thanks for Oma and Opie to watch the baby, It was a great morning

Wald Basket with Old Man Mountain Mounts

Earlier today a thread came up on the webs about the challenges of mounting a Wald basket to a front wheel using a quick release.  A few years ago I worked through this problem with a set of Old Man Mountain rack mounts that I had sitting in the parts bin.

It has held up as well as one could hope for.  The evidence remains of my first solution attempt with the slotted holes.  For the record that attempt was a total failure.