Guest Post: What does safe cycling in Dallas mean? – Eliot Landrum Cycling Savvy DFW
May 7, 2012 – 10:08 pm | 7 Comments

“Be safe”, you hear folks tell you as you cycle away. We hear it everywhere in cycling circles. But what exactly does that mean? Wear brighter clothes? Be more vigilant for rogue motorists? Wear 1500 …

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A “Cool ” Vintage Bike That Actually Really Sucked Bad: Sears Free Spirit
January 2, 2010 – 1:12 pm | 6 Comments
A “Cool ” Vintage Bike That Actually Really Sucked Bad: Sears Free Spirit

In July of 2008, after about six months of being back in the bicycle game, I found this bike on my local Craigslist:

Sixty bucks! What a deal, I thought. A cool vintage, single speed cruiser …

Bicycles West of the Pecos
December 28, 2009 – 12:07 pm | No Comment
Bicycles West of the Pecos

In this early photo of bicycling in Texas, a white-bearded Judge Roy Bean stands outside of his famed Jersey Lilly Saloon in Langtry, TX, flanked by two new-fangled bicycles. This image was recorded sometime prior to …

Garage Sale Find: Opaque Blue 1973 Schwinn Suburban
December 22, 2009 – 10:58 am | One Comment
Garage Sale Find: Opaque Blue 1973 Schwinn Suburban

One thing that I really love about my obsessive/compulsive bicycling hobby is:  The Hunt.
Whether it be Craigslist, Ebay, garage sales, flea markets, unsanitary looking thrift stores or those metal-recycling guys from south Dallas that drive around …

Ebay and the 1963 Schwinn Traveler
December 16, 2009 – 8:50 am | 2 Comments
Ebay and the 1963 Schwinn Traveler

As I began to ride my Electrabike and grow more interested in bicycles in general, I began to spend more time online reading about and obsessing about bicycles. Growing up in Dallas, at least when …

The Beginning of an Addiction, or: My First Adult Bike
December 9, 2009 – 6:45 am | No Comment
The Beginning of an Addiction, or: My First Adult Bike

 
Approximately two years ago, in late 2007, I began to become interested in riding bikes again.  I had not owned  a bicycle since college, and save for a few brief rides in New York City with …