Now that Google Maps has released an official API, people are doing all sorts of interesting and cool things with it. People come up with things you never even dreamed of. Since I do a fair bit of cycling and sometimes want to plan routes for a certain distance, this web application I found is [...]
Read more →I’ve been giving some continued thought to bike commuting over the weekend, trying to figure out how much money (if any) I’d want to put into acquiring and outfitting a used mountain bike — I’m certainly not going to ride my expensive road bike to work or the store and leave it locked up on [...]
Read more →I’ve been reading a couple of interesting web sites lately — IceBike and Chicago Bike Winter, both of which deal with people who are nutty enough to ride their bikes in the dead of winter — even when there’s a few inches of snow on the ground. From what I’m reading, it’s not as bad [...]
Read more →Spring finally arrived this week, so Monday I got my bike down to the bike shop for some routine maintenance. I was fortunate enough to get it back the same day, so of course I had to go out for a ride that evening. For future reference, though, I probably shouldn’t go riding right before [...]
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