I would have mistaken these bugs for seeds, if I noticed them at all. My dear and observant friend Lisa spotted them during a leisurely ride along the Mason-Greenville rail trail last weekend.
 
 
 

 
She waved a hand gently in the air, as if brushing off invisible cobwebs, and coaxed one of the tiny critters to light [...]

The Vector Comp wheels that came with my road bike (a 2000 model Klein) served me well, so far as I can tell. They rolled round and stayed true for several years, without professional help.
Time conquers all, alas, and my wheels were no exception. The rear hub flange cracked last weekend, apparently due to [...]

The weekend of Sept. 20 and 21 is so full of fun things to do, I get giddy just thinking about it. Check it out:
The Seacoast Century is the easiest (because it’s flat) most fun (because riding amongst a few thousand other cyclists is a rush) 100-mile tri-state bicycle rides you could ever do.
 
The Can/Am Slalom [...]

So sayeth the League of American Bicyclists. I didn’t even know that we cyclists had a union. The league announced its rankings Friday in a press release. As is so often the case with such 50 state ratings, it appears to be fairly superficial, and mostly just a gimmick designed to promote an adgenda. Making [...]

The price of gas being as it is, some clever folks are looking toward two-wheeled alternatives. Scooters are all right, but you can’t do better than bicycles, which burn nothing but calories (I get about 30 miles per pizza slice, or thereabouts).
Paul Keegan got into bicycling in a big way more than 20 years ago, when [...]

Mike’s Service Station saved my Sunday, and I want to thank them publicly and profusely for it.
The Amherst Village center has long been a popular spot for local road cyclists, and one gets the sense they are largely welcomed. The town doesn’t seem to mind if people park there, as a staging area for rides, and [...]

Mountain bikers love singletrack. Sometimes it seems as though narrow, twisty trails are all we ever talk or think about… that and bikes.

I love the stuff myself, but a little extra width won’t put me off a nice piece of trail. I first got into mountain biking by riding along the power lines and associated [...]

I checked out two new (to me) mountain bike trail systems recently, one very well known and one a little less so. Guess which one I liked best?
I’m a predictable snob… other things being equal, I’ll always favor the obscure. Both were far enough from home that I drove to get there.
 
The FOMBA trails around little [...]

I knew that such a tool as “map my ride” must exist somewhere, and I just now found it while poking around on the excellent Souhegan Cycleworks website (I like how they rate local hills!).
My cycle computer seems to have crapped out (fresh batteries didn’t fix it), so I have no way of knowing how [...]

I like trains just fine, but I like bicycles even better, and the Nashua River Rail Trail (paved) and the Mason Rail Trail (unpaved) are two of my favorite places to ride a bicycle. Maybe someday they will be connected, but don’t count on it.
The two trails do connect, in the sense that both of [...]