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The 15 year old boy who was shot on the bus a block from my apartment Thursday died on Saturday. There are candles and flowers in the bus shelter at Mission and Onandaga.

Averaged 14.75mph on the way to work this morning. I should have left earlier, so I ended up being a bit late to work. After arriving, I locked up the bike and took a shower at the gym. I need to get the clothing part worked out, because I

Everyone knows what AA is, right? Well here’s an anecdote about the origins of AA: Bill Wilson, one of the founders of AA, had tried to get a bunch of gutter-drunks sober for months before he met Dr. Bob Smith, the singer of the Cure other founder. He had

In private correspondence, someone I used to trust wrote the following: > sometimes it’s easier to just be bitter This is surprisingly true. It is easier just being bitter. I don’t know where I’d be without my bitterness. It is the fuel that keeps me moving and

I’ve had the excitement of my first bouts of exploration, later brought to new heights as I learned to do things I’d never done before. Still later I fell in madly in love with lean, beautiful, fast, and expensive. Today my needs are for more practicality, I don’

The new bike has STI shifters. Every road bike made these days has those (or ErgoPower in the case of Campagnolo-equipped bikes) but this is the first time I’ve gotten to ride with brake-lever shifters. My first reaction, not having ridden this bike more than a mile (I took

Setting up the new bike, and I’m real curious to see how it rides. It’s a bigger frame than I’m used to—a 55cm frame, where my racing bike is a 53cm frame. Hopefully I won’t have to make any rapid dismounts (!!!!). The fellow who set