Bombing down a mountain on a totally inappropriate bike taught me this

by Tom BabinBikesPosted on 11 Comments

It was a long and uninteresting series of events that led me to ride my daughter’s Breezer Downtown EX down the side of a mountain, but here’s the important part: It was fun. An outing during a family camping trip that went a little bit differently than expected found us at the head of a …

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This temporary car-free haven shows how people on bikes flock to safe routes

by Tom BabinCitiesPosted on 5 Comments

It was while screaming downhill, past hundreds of other cyclists who were slowly climbing in the opposite direction, that the thought crossed my mind. “Huh,” I thought. “This is a thing.” That was on the weekend as I happily rode the Highwood Pass for the first time, a local highway that, for a few weekends …

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