Op-Ed

Einstein shared with us that time is flexible, and I read Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time, which, of course, was hardly brief and took up way too much of my…

Pedaling down the California coast just south of Carlsbad along the famed PCH, I rolled up on whom I christened without question as the biggest dumb duck bike rider I’ve…

I’ve been working on a book proposal about how ebikes developed in the U.S. market, put more simply, the story of ebikes in the U.S. for several months now, I’ve been…

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with caffeine for years, well, actually decades. Hey, I’m an old fart. Many, many years ago I decided to experiment to understand my body…

I suppose out there on the Internet somewhere, there are instructional videos that I could be watching to help me along in my cycling life, but I hate spoilers. I love…

My house has a front door, a back door, a basement door and a garage door. We have ample egress. But you know there are times when I just don't know how to get out of the…

I suppose everyone has taken their own personal approach to preparing for their future. In my case my future being the time (now) when no one will ever hire me again…

Back in the day I wrote a weekly outdoor column where readers took me on their favorite outdoor adventures. A fella wrote me that he had the best bike commute in the land,…

You have experienced this. You're at a cookout or a party or a business function, and someone has ratted you out as a "serious cyclist" to some civilian type with questions…

When people ask me why cycling occupies such a central, dare I say dominant, role in my life, I've taken to beginning with a somewhat cryptic reply. It's certainly not…