Rambling Different Trails: All Rides Are Local.
If “all politics is local” as the saying goes, certainly our rides are. For some, riding is a political statement as well as a form of transportation or avocation. From …
Getting Along: A Zig and a Zag
No matter how many trails and quiet residential streets you incorporate into your bike route, one fact remains: You will still have to cross busy streets. Sometimes you’ll have a …
City Council 2017 Candidates: Brayden McLaughlin
Hi Sydney, thanks for reaching out! I’m a cyclist too and while I like the idea of complete streets, the way that the city has implemented it in the past …
Rambling Different Trails: At The Bike Shop.
It’s aggravating not speaking Chinese, and needing to go to the bike shop while not speaking Chinese is even worse. I can say a few phrases and get us home …
Rambling Different Trails: Get To Know Your Own Backyard.
Recently we we were invited out to dinner by a “well-placed civil servant.” We never found out what he actually does, but he speaks English. Eventually the conversation came around …
Rambling Different Trails: Putting The Puzzle Together.
This past week I’ve been exploring the levee roads upstream from Zhoukou. The Yinghe and the Shahe rivers meet on the western edge of the city but I’d never found …
Rambling Different Trails: Fast Forward To The Present
I was reminded a few days ago just how quickly things are changing here in Zhoukou. I was commenting on the small village roads I’d been riding lately. Another oral …
Rambling Different Trails: The Thin Gray Lines.
First an update from last week. In Shanghai a task force has been rounding up bike shares off the sidewalks. Apparently there are so many that people were complaining that …
Rambling Different Trails: An Adventure In Bike Shares.
We are back from a week in Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai, and are excited to see that bike shares are so common there. Nanjing is a modern city, heavily damaged …
Trail Ramblings: Driven Beyond Patience.
It’s easy to take for granted the dependability and generally law-abiding nature of Lincoln motorists, excepting of course the (lack of) use of turn signals. Here in China if there’s …