Roughly a month ago I blew threw my favorite pair of do all cycling shoes, Sidi Dominators.  They have had a good life, and just needed a cleat repair so I put them on the rack until they could be repaired and went hunting for a new pair of shoes in the shop.  Originally the [...]

Yesterday we talked about hot road bikes for the commute. Lightweight road bikes, though, can be a little finicky, and many of us like to keep the sporting equipment in pristine condition.
In a comment, Steve asked the question: “What constitutes ‘commuter bike abuse’?” A few things come to mind for me; I’m sure CBB [...]

Here at Commute By Bike we focus primarily on utility bikes designed more for practical transportation rather than fast sport recreation. I know many of you, however, like the fast road bikes.
My good friend Ken Conley in Silicon Valley is a fast bike fanatic who rides his bike to work. He recently had an [...]

Born Again Cycles recycles bicycles in Melbourne, Australia. BAC blogger Mark Horner rants about a topic that might resonate with many of us, that the people who design our streets are not cyclists.
The problem is that those who research, design and implement solutions for the vulnerability of cyclists within increasingly frenetic ordinary road situations [...]

“You can buy some pretty nice bike gear for the price of a tank of gas these days.”
This is among the seven things Jason Gilman in Spokane posted in Seven things bike commuting has taught at his Metric Century blog.

Traffic: Why we drive the way we do by Ted Vanderbilt explains why American motorists [...]

We’ve seen tips on how to save gas all over the place. I like Matt’s stories on wasting gas at his blog. I see stuff like Matt reports all the time, where people leave their engines running for now discernible reason. How about you?