http://www.onelane.org/discuss Discussion and useful information about the NCT Rolling Community Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:31:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm traveling to Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague during April with the Greater Middletown Chorale. Naturally, there's a blog attached to that. Hope you'll follow the adventure! http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2008/03/18/going-to-europe/ Ghost bikes mark an intersection in Portland, Oregon, at which two bicyclists were killed by turning vehicles during October in separate incidents. The city is now responding by re-marking certain intersections with so-called "bike boxes." These are essentially stop-lines for bicyclists that place them ahead of, and in full view of, ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2008/01/10/bike-boxes-portland-ore/ Well, well… So Floyd WAS doping on the 2006 Tour de France. Or at least he's been found guilty of it by an arbitration panel. (Here's the story: Landis’s Positive Doping Test Upheld I was so taken up by his gutsy surge in the mountains that I blogged him here the ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2007/09/21/full-circle%e2%80%a6even-though-my-original-point-still-holds/ This morning's New York Times had an intriguing article about the significance of body shape in bicycling fitness versus running fitness: The Bicycling Paradox: Fit Doesn’t Have to Mean Thin - New York Times [may require registration] The author profiles a number of middle-aged cyclists (that sounds familiar as I travel into ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2007/07/18/body-shape-bah/ I'm bummed, and I'm not. All at once. Along with Alison I have been doing bicycle trips since 1997. (Our first one actually travelled in 1998, but we started the planning before that.) I'll add some background on that to this blog soon, but the bottom line is that 10 years ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2007/04/26/a-break-for-2007/ I've avoided tick bites for years and years--even though I show up at Silver Lake every summer! :) I did not expect that I would get the Lyme Fever, but that appears to be just what happened. I've just returned from a visit with Dave, the friendly nurse-practitioner at my doctor's office. ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2006/07/24/tick-bite-lyme-disease/ Who among you really had heard of Floyd Landis before last week? Yet today, he's the winner of the Tour de France: PARIS (AP) -- The highs and lows of Floyd Landis' nail-biter of a bike race ended without a hitch Sunday as he won the Tour de France and kept cycling's ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2006/07/23/landis-wins-tour-de-france/ I don't remember if any of you had this particular quick-release on your bicycle, but a couple of you had new bicycles on our tour, and this recall came out while we were on the road last week.Read story hereThe Consumer Product Safety Commission, which issued the recall, offers this ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2006/07/21/shimano-quick-release-recall/ First time back on the bike since our tour ended Friday evening. I did a quick 22 miles (in about 90 minutes) along the Farmington Canal trail in Cheshire and Hamden. When I got back I checked my home thermometer, which told me the temperature (at home) hit 100°F at about ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2006/07/18/baby-its-hot-outside/ This story came from Reuters via Yahoo! this morning: Overcome with remorse at having stolen a bicycle, a thief in Germany wrote the victim a letter and fully recompensed him for the loss, police said Monday. After the theft in the Bavarian village of Bidingen was reported, police in nearby Marktoberdorf made ... http://www.onelane.org/discuss/2006/07/18/conscience-good-thing/