Op-Ed

I wasn't especially tired, but the battery had died on my ebike as I was heading home, a mistake I capably repeat because I can't read all the numbers on the display without…

Darrell Waltrip first introduced me to the saying that, sadly, fits me better than OJ’s glove: He don’t know what he don’t know! When it comes to bikes, that’s more true…

There’s a lot to be said about not fitting in, about being able to view life from the outside, rather than the inside. Sometimes you realize the inside is, indeed, a safer…

Few joys can match riding your bike East on the Columbia River Gorge Historic Highway Trail. The Gorge is glorious for its stunning views as well as notorious for its…

My older brother Tom and his buddy Gary took a Twilight Zone/Stephen King approach to big brotherhood with me since, of course, Tom spent six years as the lone little bro to…

I'm in the midst of researching a book on ebikes. This is not prescriptive (how-to) nonfiction. Rather, it's narrative—the story of ebikes. I've interview some of the most…

I shot this inside the St. Paul Pass Tunnel on the Route of the Hiawatha. I was scanning for other shots when I ran across this and it fit my mood, my mode of thought in a…

The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven.   —Sylvia Plath Black. Huckle. Rasp. My favorite time of the season is coming to a close.…

As usual the temperature climbs toward triple digits as I find myself in the foothills of Oregon’s Blue Mountains climbing a paved road with high prairie views that stretch…

I recently had the good fortune to discuss the difference in sound between the two guitars that made rock and roll possible: the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster.…