Op-Ed

I'm not one to go in for social media challenges. I need to say that before I endorse this social media challenge. Back when people were pouring buckets of ice water over…

You never forget the first time you see evidence that the unimaginable is, well, imaginable. I ventured into the Cascades on my first outdoor adventure for my newly minted…

I have this core memory about bikes. I was five or six years old, standing in front of our house on Brookside Drive in East Greenwich, RI. My brother, who was eight years…

Are we living in the Golden Age of Cycling? I think a case can be made for it.   I understand others have proposed the Golden Age of Cycling was in decades past. Please,…

When you’ve spent enough time doing something that it could literally be counted as a lifetime of its own, well, you’re committed. Or, maybe you should be committed. I can…

Let me preface all this by saying out loud that I have nothing against ebikes nor those individuals who ride them, and I’m pretty confident in saying there will be one or two…

Oh, how the mind wanders when you’re out roaming around on your bike! These mindless questions linger for each thought that rises from the cosmos: Do these details really…

I suppose it always comes down to your frame of mind at the moment, but it’s a lot like people and their hair. If you have curly hair, you want to straighten it out. If you…

When I was new at writing about cycling, I carried the evangelist's certainty that I had the answer. It was an answer that would work for anyone. Anxious? Go for a bike ride.…

Rumbling down I-84 through the Columbia Gorge counting down the miles that will end a more than harrowing conclusion to our summer road trip with our travel trailer hitched…