Jul 25, 2012 | Lifestyle |
What are the necessary parts on a bike anyway? It all depends upon your build philosophy. From a Minimalist Perspective First one needs a frame. A bicycle requires wheels to roll upon (included therein: tires, spokes, hubs, and all that lay beneath these). It...
Jul 20, 2012 | Environment, Lifestyle |
Utopia The word utopia comes to us from Sir Thomas More’s 1516 work of that name. It means the ideal place or perfect society, but it comes from the Greek roots for “the place that cannot be”, or “no place”. Being no place in particular...
Jul 17, 2012 | Commute, Environment, Lifestyle |
Villages – Were We Started From Once upon a time, we started out in villages. Well, obviously it’s a quite a bit more complex than that, but for our purposes we’re starting here. In small communities you know the people who pass you on the street,...
Jul 11, 2012 | Accessories, Commute |
Part 5 in the “CX First Timer Custom Build Experiment” Admittedly the name handlebar is a little misleading; they’re actually tubes, only the very early bikes had an actual steel bar – think how heavy that would be! So Many Flavors Handlebars come in many...
Jul 10, 2012 | Activism, Commute, Events, Lifestyle |
We’re in the Paper! An article entitled “Biking to the Future in Boston” by Peter DeMarco appeared in the recent The Boston Globe Magazine…. …and guess who’s representing on the front? Team Montague (denoted by the fuchsia arrow)!...
