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What’s in YOUR bike bag?

-Rita Zeidner on the Potomac Pedalers Touring Club list serve
Here, in response to popular request and in no particular order, a summary.
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Peter at minkhollow
Absolute minimum? A cell phone, to call my wife and ask her nicely to come out and pick me up. If I’m riding way out in the country, I stick with my Verizon phone, since they have more coverage, and it has an analog mode. (Don’t leave it on — analog mode runs the battery down quickly.)
If I need to be more independent:
– Small (but powerful) pump that can actually pump up a tire in a reasonable amount of time – Spare tube – Tire levers – All-in-one tool with hex wrenches, screwdrivers, and a chain tool.- Piece of old tire casing to use as a boot in case of major tire failure
I carry more than that, but those are the things I feel I need.
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We Are Traffic

Video 49 min 52 sec – Oct 23, 2005

There are a lot of interesting ideas and thoughts in this video. One of the comments in the video was about how we punish people in this society by confining their movement. Which got me thinking isn’t the space inside a car near equivalent to the space in a jail cell?

Cars were once the great enablers of freedom and now they are becoming jail cells in rush hour or at best, modified wheel chairs so the occupants do not have to do more then 5-15 minutes of
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To be or to do

From RoadBikeRider.com free
e-newsletter:

“I have a very busy life, filled
with a combination of things I want to do and things I have to do. There is
peacefulness in focusing on just one thing, like a mantra or meditation. In
these long events, there are stretches of time that can be very relaxing and I
feel I am more of a human
‘being’ and less of a
human ‘doing.’ That is, of course, until it gets that little bit
harder and the discomfort takes all the fun out of it.”

– Dan McGehee double-century record
holder, a 43-year-old optometrist with a wife and three kids, explanation of the
attraction of long-distance time trialing