Maureen Gaffney

On more occasions lately than seems reasonable, rational, or sane, I’ve been yelled at for riding two-abreast on the bike path. Okay fine. This breach in…

You are presumably at least some manner of rider of a bicycle if you are reading this publication. I’ve been riding bikes since the Triassic. All kinds. The…

Here are various vignettes regarding misjudgment. Some physical, some mental—some funny, some just plain judgy misjudgments. The Conversation:…

(but ask first..) I’ve been a bike advocate for more years than I’d care to admit. It started in the normal way—riding bikes, thinking it was nifty. Someone…

The other day I was blissfully pedaling up a trail, lost in an internal reverie about cupcakes or cloud seeding—I really don’t remember. The only sound was my…

I dislike wind. On a cellular level. I do not think this is out of the ordinary—most humans do not like this element, unless they are sailors and that’s an…

I remembered a bunch of stuff I left off the first list of awesome advancements in cycling. A TCI commenter commented on “Newfangled” that he was surprised I’d…

The Bay Area Trails Collaborative—"Developing a world-class interconnected network of regional trails benefiting all people of the San Francisco Bay Area.”…

You know how every once in a while, something gets invented and you’re like “oh, I’m not sure how we ever survived without that. Why did this not happen…

Depending on where you live, and whether you ride off-road, you have likely (hopefully) noticed a change in trail-building in recent years. From design to the…