Why a bell? Sure you can shout “hey!!!”, but the hearer would hesitate, turn around to see what all the “hey”-ing was about, and by then it would be too late. Or, you could call out the tedious, “on your left,” but that must be said when you are in close proximity, can be startling, and also comes with the
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After some careful observation I decided to try a bit of Toronto-style cyclo-commuting. But first, I felt the need to get a bell for my bike There are just too many people coming and going to and fro to be without one, AND there’s a $90 fine for not having one, so my first stop was a bike shop just
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I attended ExpoCycle, Canada’s annual bicycle dealers trade show in Toronto, a couple of weeks ago. Afterward I had a few days to explore the town on my bike. First, (or actually by now, second) let me tell you Toronto is big. Compared to Miamitown… well even Cincinnati, for instance, Toronto is way bigger. In Toronto EVERYBODY rides a bike,
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No really, what do YOU know? A customer came in to the shop today. He’s one of many over the years to tell me something stunningly inaccurate, laughably so—only the laugh must be withheld in the interest of compassion, since the would-be comedian is not attempting humor with the statement. “This is a pretty nice bike.” he said, nodding toward a
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There are few opportunities within a reasonable day-trip of the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky corner of the US to ride off-road for distances greater than 40 miles, and even that distance would require backtracking every mile of a trail. But one day each year, during the Brown County Breakdown (BCB), three mountain bike trail systems are linked via private land, horse trails, and
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