Category: cycling (Page 30 of 37)

Do they have the right idea or what. Turns out it isn’t just adults in Copenhagen that ride cargo bikes.

Images from the article Early Cargo Bike Learning in Copenhagen from the brilliant copenhagenize.com.  Check them out if you haven’t – great stuff there.

Kids and bikes… they just go together.

Adorable!

Next weekend we’re riding the Tulsa Tough Gran Fondo – the Medio Fondo (100k) Saturday and the “slightly milder” 50 km Piccolo Fondo II on Sunday. 

I’ve ridden 123 miles this week including two 40 mile rides and will now ease off to be ready for Saturday – hope it’s enough. 

Any Tulsa Tough-ers out there?

Sounds like it is quite the event, 3 days of racing including some pro teams, the tour rides on Saturday and Sunday and a townie ride on Sunday.  I’ve read it’s a festival atmosphere with music, food and drink – sounds fun!

Every time I start to think I’m physically ready for the two day ride, I remember their motto:

“They don’t call it the Tulsa Tough for nothing.”

Oh boy…

Three days – three rides.  Nothing intense or long just commute type rides and a ride around the neighborhood on my touring bike Condor, named after one of my heroes – Anne Mustoe’s bike. 

My position on Condor needed tweaking, I felt too stretched out.  The frame is a little large for me, the smaller size down was too small – the Goldilocks syndrome.  Unfortunately the “just right” is probably a custom frame which I might actually spring for in the not-too-distant future.  I do love this bike though, she’s steel and pretty and a nice bike.  I just wish she was a little shorter in her top tube.

Nice weekend and nice rides, albeit windy ones. Oklahoma has to be one of the windiest places on earth.  Which is why I get so excited when we have those all too rare light/no wind days and mild temps.

Tomorrow the winds are supposed to come down and I hope to get out for a ride

I enjoyed commemorating my 21 year bicycling anniversary with my 3 little rides and 2 posts here .  It’s nice to reflect back don’t you think?  I always have a thought or two or ten about how different my life would be if I hadn’t rediscovered cycling as an adult.  So glad I did!  Still hope to hear from more of you on how you got back on the bike as an adult or on it for the first time. 

Hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend and a chance or two to ride.

Slow, as in slow bicycling. 

Slow, as in slow travel.

Yesterday we took a

s – l – o  – w 

and leisurely ride through town, through neighborhoods, parks, around the arts festival downtown, to breakfast at Java Dave’s and then home.

On our slower, heavier, more comfortable, steel-is-real touring bikes. 

I’m happy to report an average speed of 9.4 for our 22 mile “Sunday drive” kind of ride. 

No heart rate monitor either.  No training, no goal – no nothing – other than enjoyment and fun.

I was reminded of something too, reacquainted with my bike as a means of freedom and exploring.  And basic transportation.

Like we rode when we were kids.

It’s a good way to ride, and I plan to do more of it.  Will do more of it.

Next time I’ll hopefully be even slower.

In just a few weeks we will take our first bike tour of the year and our first fully self-supported bike tour ever (minus camping).

We’re going back to the Katy Trail in Missouri. We will be riding west to east, hopefully with a tailwind – although it didn’t work out that way last year. We’ll catch the train in Augusta to get back to our car in Sedalia.

Check out their website – Bike Katy Trail and our trip report on last year’s Katy Trail tour.