Interesting Reads- Ask Nick: Stretching tubulars, lawyer tabs
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- Saving Relationships, One Power Meter at a Time
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- In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero by Mike Lacher
- Ask Nick: Should you go for your vintage dream bike?
- Technical Q and A with Lennard Zinn on bike storage and battery life
- Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room
- How traffic jams are born
- The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer
A Letter to My Daughter on her 4th Birthday
You are 4. Four years old. It’s been a long year and we’ve asked a lot of you. We asked you to leave your home and leave behind your best…
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Riding With Faubion Elementary School’s Bike Club
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No Comments(Note: This was originally published on the Community Cycling Center’s blog here.) Last October, I began volunteering with Community Cycling Center’s Bike Club at Faubion Elementary in Northeast Portland. Twice... -
A Letter to My Daughter on Her 3rd Birthday
Posted on January 25, 2011 | 10 CommentsYou were supposed to be born around February 2nd. So January 25th started just like any other day, except that your mom and I slept incredibly well. For the last... -
Hunting for Purpose
Posted on January 20, 2011 | No CommentsHunting never set well with me. I was never comfortable firing a gun. To me, a gun and the consequence of its use are more power than any single individual...
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