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Visit: Bikes and the City!
I rode across the country! Click here to read about it.
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I turned my trailer into a PIRATE SHIP!
It's a regular ol' bike with an XTRACYCLE! Click to learn more.
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What this blog is about
Bicycle commuting, bicycle touring, bicycle racing; bicycle ADVENTURING.
To the grocery store, up a mountain, across the country or to the finish line--
it's all an adventure.
About Me
- RJ
- Walla Walla, WA, United States
- To me, riding a bicycle is more than a means of "exercise," it's a means of exploration.
TransAmerica Tour 2009
Read about the trip here!
Contents by Topic
- Adventure Racing (1)
- ADVOCACY (35)
- Bicycle Adventuring (20)
- Bicycle Culture (38)
- Bicycle STYLE (5)
- Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee (6)
- big bike TRAILER (12)
- Bike Gear (37)
- Bike Thyme (9)
- Cascade Bicycle Club (1)
- CCY Bikery Repair Shop (7)
- CCY Junior Cycling Team (36)
- Commuting (46)
- Commuting Tips (23)
- Cyclocross (12)
- Folding Bike (7)
- Losing Weight (1)
- MAINTENANCE (3)
- Mountain Biking (24)
- Orienteering (2)
- PARADE (6)
- Randonneuring (2)
- Ride Photos (71)
- SAFETY (21)
- Seattle Bike Bloggers (1)
- Snow Riding (7)
- TOURING (24)
- Touring TIPS (11)
- TRACK racing (6)
- Transamerica Tour (62)
- TREK: Women Who Ride (9)
- Triathlon (2)
- Videos (48)
- Walla Walla Routes (6)
- Whitman Cycling (11)
- WW BICYCLE MAP (1)
- Xterra (6)
- Xtracycle (35)
TransAmerica Tour 2009
Watch the VIDEO here!
TransAmerica Tour 2009
Click for TIPS and Q & A!
Do you want to BIKE COMMUTE?
Click here for more TIPS!
Ride in STYLE
Visit: Bikes and the City!
TransAmerica Bicycle Tour
I rode across the country! Click here to read about it.
Posts of Interest
- Bicycle Touring Packing List: IN REVIEW
- Weight and Gears: the truth about HILLS!
- Moving out of my apartment by bicycle
- Short video about my XTRACYCLE
- Loading the Xtracycle: VIDEO
- Bicycling Walla Walla in the Winter: a short video
- A video comparing my different bicycle lights
- HOTbike: bicycle fashion show
- Turn your bicycle into a COMMUTING bicycle
- How to NOT get hit by cars
- Bicycling around cars; driving around bicycles
- The great helmet debate (did you know there was one?)
- Choosing an 'ideal' bike for an Xtracycle
- Turning my bike trailer into a float; the bicycle PARADE!
- "Cycling for Everyone" a MUST SEE (and entertaining) lecture on bicycle commuting and infrastructure
How I Moved Out of My Apartment by BICYCLE!
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Don't let what others think you are doing..
affect what YOU think you are doing.
Bicycle PARADE!
I turned my trailer into a PIRATE SHIP!
Curious about my 'long bike'?
It's a regular ol' bike with an XTRACYCLE! Click to learn more.
Bicycle Blogs
- Amsterdamize: 100% latex-free cycling unleashed
- Bicycle Design
- Bike Commute Tips Blog, by Paul Dorn
- Bike Hugger
- Bike Intelligencer
- Bike JuJu
- Bike Portland
- Bike Snob NYC
- Bikes and the City
- Bikes for the Rest of Us
- Biking Bis
- Car Free Days
- Copenhagen Cycle Chic: style over speed
- Copenhagenize: take back the bike culture
- Crazy Guy on a Bike: a place for bicycle tourists and their journals
- Cycling Spokane
- EcoVelo
- For the Love of Bikes
- Go Means Go!
- Jerome's Bikes
- Kent's Bike Blog
- Momentum - the magazine for self-propelled people
- Path Less Pedaled
- Seattle Likes Bikes
- She Bicycles
- Street Films
- Tot Cycle - Family Biking
- Up in Alaska
- Velo Flaneur
- Xtracycle
- Yellow Tent Adventures
Bicycle Links of Interest
- Adventure Cycling
- Bicycle Fixation
- Bicycle Touring Pro
- Bikes at Work Inc.
- Bikes Belong
- Copenhagen Cycle Chic
- Copenhagenize: Take Back the Bike Culture
- Crazy Guy on a Bike: bike touring blog index
- Group Health MS Bike Ride
- Hembrow Cycling Holidays: bicycling in Holland
- League of American Bicyclists
- Peter White Cycles
- Rivendell Bicycle Works
- Sheldon Brown's Technical Info
- Specialty Outdoors
- Thunderhead Alliance
- Xtracycle
- Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery
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- How do people use Xtracycles?
- Copenagen Cycle Chic
- Choosing a Bike (from scratch!) for an Xtracycle
- Tour of Walla Walla Report
- Who's the Weirdo?
- Critical Mass: We Are Traffic
- "Field Performance Test"
- Xavier Rudd: Better People
- "Bicycle Camping for the Time Challenged"
- World's Largest Bicycle
- Specialty Outdoors: handmade, quality, custom gear
- Bikes at Work
- Build Your Own Bamboo Trailer
- Some favorite pictures from the weekend..
- How to Not Get Hit By Cars!
- "No More Excuses"
- People & Their Bicycles
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