Xtracycle introduced its 2010 version of the Radish recently. The Radish is Xtra’s complete long-tail bike and is a great way to join in on the lang-tail bicycle life style. From Xtracycle’s Press Release: Our flagship model, Radish, undergoes revision for 2010, incorporating feedback and recommendations from our dealers and distributors worldwide. Radish will now [...]
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
Via Facebook from Wheel and Sprocket’s Chris Kegel: He, Trek’s John Burke and Wisconsin Bike Fed’s Kevin Hardman are meeting with Governor-elect Scott Walker today. Their goal get? Get Walker’s support to help make Wisconsin more Bike Friendly. As a $1.5 billion part of the states economy Walker OUGHT to be friendly towards biking and [...]
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
I tried out the new Bike There version of Google Maps to see what route it suggests to get from the Schlick Cycles shop to the Alterra Coffee Shop at the Bayshore Town Center. The routes presented seem like good choices although, for some reason, it only suggests the Oak Leaf bicycle trail when going [...]
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Had a decent ride today. I did some quick business stops at the Post Office, Bank and Winkie’s and then did a 15-mile ride on my Simplified single speed. There was a pretty brisk North breeze blowing about 15mph. I’d spend most of Saturday afternoon turning my Simplified frame from SuperFast prototype back into its [...]

Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. – Mark Twain
She who succeeds in gaining the master of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. – Frances E. Willard
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. -Bill Nye, the Science Guy
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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