You see that flannel-wearing fat guy on a bike trying to get to work on time, just the same as every commuter on the road in the morning? That's me. The only difference between me and most of the other daily commuters is that every...
I didn't commute by bike today because I found the fatal flaw in bicycle commuting that is most likely the real root cause of why people drive everywhere.
I dove in head first and rode almost 10 miles on my first day, the first time I had ever ridden a skinny road bike and the first day in approximately 17 years I had ever ridden a bike at all. Today, I tried it again.
Last weekend I bought a bike. I didn't intend on buying this particular bike, it was just sitting in the rack at Goodwill, but it was only $29 and I'm a sucker for a good thrift store deal. Here is my tale.
