The front wheel of our Omnium Cargo is a DT Swiss U663 laced to a SON 28. We got the Omnium about a month ago, so I knew there wouldn’t be a lot of ride time before I wanted to switch to winter tires, as we plan on both using this as primary kid and…
I’ve been sick, so no riding lately. I did work last Friday, though, and I plan on writing about potentially interesting repairs here for the few days I am working while laid off. I’m working alone now, so that means very little gets done. Here are some of the notables from the work day. I’m…
Yesterday I had to ride out to Malminkartano from Eastern Helsinki for a Tori pickup. Also Iiro came back from Japan this week and wanted to ride to adjust from the 30c Tokyo late-summer to 9c Helsinki fall. He brought one of these cute Ghooost flowers for Laura and a perfectly-matching Crane bell for our…
Planning on some peaceful riding for my first days off and well it doesn’t always work out that way…always surprises. Decided to ride a loop in Laajasalo, which has some interesting trail riding and nice quiet paths by the water with some varied rocky climbs and twisty trails and some fast forest roads. A mountain…
Bicycles don’t appear very often in literary fiction. Even though they are a part of most peoples’ daily lives and have been for a long time, they are difficult to describe, I think. And fiction is where artists try really hard to arrange descriptions of things into stories that make us think about these things,…
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