While the rest of the cycling world was stuck to the television and computer following the who’s who of blood transfusions and horse medication, I was riding and eating ice cream with a bunch of friends. Ice cream is my anti-drug. Rather than making me go faster and longer it makes me go slower and [...]

Could the Handmade Bicycle Show find its way to Pittsburgh come 2009? Past years have seen the show in Houston and San Jose, and for 2008 the Handmade show is scheduled for February 8 – 10 in Portland, Oregon. The show’s founder and behind the scenes workhorse Don Walker is looking to move the show [...]

Doping. 1 in 10 American women take antidepressants on a daily basis, tripling in the past decade. In 2002 6% of boys were taking antidepressants and another 14% of the were on prescription stimulants for ADHD etc. In 1999-2000, overall 44% of Americans were taking at least one prescription drug. 17% of Americans were taking [...]

I feel for Ohio. They can’t help it. Not east enough to have that grit, not west enough for twang. Right in the middle, the terrible place you have to drive through on the way from anywhere northeast to Chicago and beyond. And not a Superbowl ring between any of them. It must be tough. [...]

Mainstream racing and the bullshit fees and attitudes that come with it are for the birds. My days of forking over $35 plus a license fee + a parking fee + three bucks for water only to hear the organizer whine about not making cash-money are pretty well over. Once or twice a year maybe, [...]

July 3rd was the opening of Urban Velo’s inaugural Art By Cyclists event. Art By Cyclists. Get it? Not art featuring bicycles. These are artists that ride bikes, or cyclists that make art, or some combination of the two and their current pick of what piece to show off in such an illustrious show. Rudi [...]

I got so much trouble on my mind I refuse to lose Here’s your ticket Hear the drummer get wicked Welcome to the Ghettodrome Its really a half mile crit racing track, with a bit of a hump in the middle. And a downhill front stretch. Meaning there’s an uphill finish. But the curves are [...]

The guy on the left – Pittsburgh’s boy-Mayor Luke Ravenstahl The guy on the right – Executive Director of Bike Pittsburgh The Mayor on our new bike lanes, “The lanes will further encourage biking as a mode of transportation, promoting a healthy lifestyle and environment by encouraging exercise and reducing carbon emissions.” Fuck. Yeah. When [...]

One man microest-micro brewery in Pittsburgh, East End Brewing hosted a beer ride on Friday evening. Show up, go for a meandering ride with owner/brewer Scott hauling a keg, drink a pint on him at a local bar. Last year, two dozen people showed up. This year we’re talking 120+. The kiddie trailer used as [...]

Clearly, two miles out is the proper place to pick up a fridge pack of mini-kegs.

Pittsburgh doesn’t have many bike lanes. We do have lots of hills, lots of bikes and a strange bicycle community that crosses all of the usual elitist barriers that cyclists put up between themselves elsewhere. Years of collective work has paid off – just over 5 years since its inception, Bike-Pgh just got what we’ve [...]

The extent of pent up anger in the general population never ceases to amaze me. I casually blew past a Mercedes “Roadster” SLK class hunk-of-junk as it sat with right turn blinker on, waiting for the non-traffic to pass. Just sitting at the stop sign, a few miles into my commute. The owner fussing with [...]