A lot of this blog (and a lot of Dallas based bicycle blogs in general) are focused on very specific parts of the Dallas bike culture – mostly to do with casual, fixed gear riding …

I’ve been in the hunt for a touring bike with specific features for a couple of years now.  I wanted a somewhat slack geometry, fender and rack eyelets, and I like shiny bits so my …

Like most of the bicycle bloggers out there, over the past couple of years I got back into bicycling and became just the biggest bike fool you have ever met. When my lovely wife was …

One of the things I like best about summer is the opportunity for summer foods and nothing goes better with tortilla chips, white fish or chicken than a refreshing mango salsa.
Before I get carried away …

Last night I repacked the rear wheel bearings on my Fuji road bike restoration project. I had never repacked loose bearings on any bike, much less any road bike. So I was very careful. Even though …

Or: another freaking Schwinn. I saw this on CL last night and the guy wanted $50 for it. I thought that it might make a nice matched pair for my (very) recently posted 1973 Schwinn Speedster.

They’re both in …

I bought this bike a few months ago in my largest CL mass-bike purchase to date. It isn’t the sort of thing that I usually do, but the guy’s CL ad had the usual requirements that …

Remember when we were kids, we would just jump on a bike and go? We didn’t care about the size of the frame or if the saddle was the right height; we just took off. …

The joy of riding a bike will change your life. But I cringe every time I see bicyclists in Dallas riding without helmets or on sidewalks. These common violations are not only illegal, they model …

I’d like to tell you that I rode one of my many bicycles to Ft. Worth today from my East Dallas home. I’d love to tell you about the 37 mile struggle, my travails, etc.
But …