Winter riding in Portland means you have to have mudguards. More like rainguards. And they are for you as much as for the cyclist behind you. On the Zurich, I like the Portland Design Works, Full Metal Fenders. They are sleek, strong, and good looking, and they come with clever hangers which reach up and over center-mount rim brakes. Your bike does not need to have braze-on eyelets. Full Metal Fenders can be mounted using what your bike has already: the bolts that hold your brakes to the frame and the axles for your wheels. The fender stays have a […]
Vulpine Portixol: review
The Vulpine Portixol is a stylish, lightweight rain jacket with thoughtful cycling-specific features.
Dragonfly
Life is repetitive, painful, and dull. The day after day toil at the same job, whether that’s pushing the same button, monitoring the same machine, lifting the same pallets, fixing the same printer, managing the same behavior, grading the same papers, fixing the same mistakes. If progress exists, it is so incremental that sometimes we don’t even see it. The repetitiveness is its own sort of pain. Pressure on the psyche to look for escape, to see something new in the fixed patterns. Life’s pain also comes from having a body. Stubbed toes, scraped knees, stumbles, bruises. Tripping over the […]