Posts tagged ‘biking’
Argonne bike ride
August 7th, 2011 at 9:37 am by Dr. Drang
Yesterday morning I went out for a bike ride I’ve been wanting to take for some time: to Argonne National Lab, around the loop trail that surrounds it, and back home. Each leg is about 10 miles, so I ended up with just over 31 miles on my tripmeter when I got home. I’ve ridden…
Bike tire replacement
July 6th, 2011 at 8:45 am by Dr. Drang
I replaced my tires on the morning of the Fourth. The old ones had about 3600 miles on them, 2800 from last year and 800 so far this year. This is down from the 4000 miles I put on the previous set, but I had kept those on until the cords were showing, something I…
The iPhone as a DIY tool
July 1st, 2011 at 8:31 am by Dr. Drang
I finally got around to replacing the worn chainring on my bike, and, as with most of my DIY projects, I used my iPhone to document how the parts fit together as I was taking them apart. To me, being able to use my camera as a pad of scratch paper is one of the…
Bike repairs
June 6th, 2011 at 9:01 pm by Dr. Drang
Last Wednesday, my Twitter friend @bemyax mentioned that I hadn’t written much about bicycling this year. I replied @bemyax Since too many of my previous “adventures” have been falls, collisions, and near-collisions, the lack of reports is a blessing.2:03 PM Wed Jun 1, 2011@drdrang Dr. Drang The blessing didn’t even last the rest of Wednesday.…
Biking season
March 20th, 2011 at 8:05 pm by Dr. Drang
Work has kept me off my bike a little more than I would have liked, but I have gotten a few rides in this month. Here’s my Google spreadsheet of bike miles for 2011: I’m behind where I was at this time last year, but ahead of every previous year. In fact, last year was…
More on bike tire life
August 20th, 2010 at 7:45 am by Dr. Drang
If you Google “bicycle tire life,” chances are you’ll see this old post of mine up near the top of the page. This is vaguely embarrassing, as the point of the post was that I went into it not really knowing how much life to expect out of my tires. Now I can speak with…
Turnabout
August 16th, 2010 at 9:21 pm by Dr. Drang
Fair is fair. After writing a couple of posts about cars running into bicycles, I suppose it’s only right that I do one on a bicycle running into a car. The story comes from Sunday’s Naperville Sun and concerns Stephen Kupelian, who’s had trouble with cars before. On probation for trying to torch a Pontiac…
Hokey smoke!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:45 am by Dr. Drang
This blog post may be inappropriate for younger or more sensitive readers. Near the end of my ride home from work yesterday, I was coasting downhill when a squirrel shot out onto the bike path from the bushes off to the right. He hesitated for a split second, and I thought I’d be able to…
Chicory
July 20th, 2010 at 4:00 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve known about chicory as a coffee substitute since I was a kid. In my mind, it’s always being drunk by cowboys out on the range who can’t get real coffee. I had no idea it came from a plant with such a pretty flower. These are growing along much of my route to work,…
Price for hitting bicyclists drops
July 20th, 2010 at 9:17 am by Dr. Drang
You may recall the case of Mary Rehm, the woman who tried to run over a couple of bicyclists in downtown Naperville. She succeeded in hitting one of the bikes and dragging it under her car for several blocks (the biker jumped off when he heard her gun the engine and wasn’t hurt). She was…
