I love cycling. It’s not that I hate walking or taking transit, it’s just flying along the road on my own two wheels is so much fun, and lets me keep my own schedule. So when I started planning a trip, it was just natural to assume that I’d bring along a bike. I thought […]

Back in 2004, if I remember correctly, Juergen held a bike building party at his house. Lots of people showed up with projects in varying stages of completeness. At this party, I started building my own bike. Since I don’t actually live in Ottawa anymore, the project has been languishing a bit since then. I have continued to work on it every so often, and hopefully after my travels, I’ll be somewhere convenient to finish working on it. Since some folks (hi Vic!) have expressed an interest in it, I figured I’d put up a post about the basic idea behind the bike…

There are three main categories of cycling philosophy that I’ve encountered so far. The one that I tend to agree with is that used in Can-Bike courses and taught by John Forester. This philosophy is based on being predictable and following the rules of the road. It also suggests that bike lanes are not a […]

In order to test our equipment and figure out what stuff we’ve forgotten, we went on a test bike trip this weekend. Our destination was Rideau Acres which is quite a nice campground, and is really close to here. Turns out it’s a good thing it wasn’t much further.
On Saturday afternoon, we packed up our […]