1/4 lb TJs whole wheat pasta (cooked) + First fresh pesto of the season (so fresh it was still bright green when I put it on) + small grind each of parmesan and black pepper + Alexis = Happiness Basil, how I love thee.
Category Archives: Personal
DUCKLINGS
There are ducklings again this spring! Five of them. Teeny little fluffballs right now. Adorable. I need to take my camera and see if I can get any pics of them.
Certified LAB cooking
As of today, I’m literally and officially certified Road I proficient by the League of American Bicyclists! I have a piece of paper that says so. I passed with flying colors. I’m glad I took the class, because since then my road positioning has gotten more appropriately assertive, and I’m feeling more comfortable on the […]
Slow Life International
This week is the Towards Carfree Cities conference in Portland, and Kent & Christine and Beth both have lovely things to say about life without a car. So many lovely things to say that they’ve said everything I could imagine saying! My favorite line: As Peter once told Kent, “I don’t ride my bike because […]
Thinking into the box
Re-reading some old posts from my LiveJournal, I came across one about “cyclist’s left”, and remembered that among the things I learned in my LAB Road I class was yet another name for this type of turn (in addition to cyclist’s left and hook turn): box turn. However, the results I get on Google for […]
The miracle of rotated handlebars
So I went through this entire odyssey after I discovered that Meg’s handlebar/stem combination wasn’t working well for me and wasn’t going to be easy to replace. I looked for stems that would work and found almost nothing, and I couldn’t figure out whether any non-31.8 handlebars would work. I think the odyssey is finally […]
LAB Road I class experience
One of the things I’ve done the past two weekends (in addition to a 50K ride, a 14-mile ride, and a birthday party) was take a local League of American Bicyclists-certified Road I class. The goal of a Road I class is to take any cyclist who can ride a bike and teach them basic-to-intermediate […]
Ride report (brief): Usual Sand Hill-Whiskey Hill-Woodside-Atherton route
Not too much to report on the route today because it’s my standard quick loop. Stats: DST: 14.1 miles AVS: 13.1 MXS: 28 Ride Time: 1:03 Got passed by an asshole motorcyclist on Menlo and a jerk honking motorist on Santa Cruz (near the Sand Hill intersection, same place I almost got sideswiped by a […]
Disappointment, commitment, and RoadID
Disappointment is a funny thing. I wasn’t sure when I got up this morning whether I was going to ride my bike or walk to the train. I hate to admit it but I don’t always like doing a riding commute. Walking to the train is just so simple, and fairly calm and stress-free. If […]
Sensible advice on visibility
I’ve complained before (though perhaps not on this blog) about the advice given to cyclists to “ride as if you’re invisible”, because it just doesn’t make any sense. If you assume no one sees you, you can’t ride with traffic at all. Finally, a piece of cycling instructional material backs me up: People will often […]