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Use Lights In Low Light

Andy Cline — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:23:07 +0000

The headline is good advice (it’s also the law). Anyway, here’s a video of my trip downtown yesterday morning for coffee and a bagel:

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Over The River And Through The Woods

Andy Cline — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:00:30 +0000

I shopped for Thanksgiving a couple of nights ago. No problem handling the job by bicycle.

Have a great Thanksgiving. See you on Black Friday. Or, rather, see you online. I won’t be shopping, although I might go downtown to hang out.

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Wabi Sabi Chic

Andy Cline — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:41:08 +0000

Take a look at this beater I saw on campus; it’s soooo wabi sabi.

Everything on this bicycle looked ancient except for the new fork, the rack, and the milk crate. It’s a B.F. Goodrich.

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Making a Good Thing Worse

Andy Cline — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:14:53 +0000

Innovation is cool, except when you blacken up a green concept.

Yes, it requires natural resources such as oil to produce bicycles. But when you go too high tech, you’re into the rare earth problem. Big problem.

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We’re Havin’ A Heat Wave

Andy Cline — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:37:45 +0000

Gonna be hot this weekend.

It’s hot now.

Can’t let that stop you from cycling.

OK, so when it’s really hot you’re going to sweat doing just about anything — that includes walking to your car and waiting for the air conditioner to kick in.

But I have always maintained, and still do, that it is not at all necessary to sweat (much) riding a bicycle. I’m not going to claim I didn’t sweat today. I’m claiming — with a straight face and in all seriousness — that I did not sweat much. Two things make that possible. First, good equipment. Take a look.

Do you see the equipment?

Or, rather: How do you like my cool bicycling shirt? It’s actually a regular cotton shirt. Cotton and that nylon made to look/feel like cotton are great choices for riding in hot weather because these fabrics keep you cooler, which then leads to the cool kind of cool The real plus is these fabrics are used to make regular clothes, which double as my cycling clothes because I do not own, nor do I wish to wear, “real” cycling clothes.

The other key to cool: Slow down. It ain’t a race out there (unless of course you are racing in which case sweat is cool).

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