The Brits love their National Health Service. But don't think they are nanny-staters run rampant. They're actually more opposed to mandatory bicycle helmet laws than we Yanks. When gold medalist and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins reacted to the…
Posts tagged as “bicycling”
I've circulated the HB 1234 referendum petition here on the west side of Lake Herman a couple evenings this week. Three times, I've had little kids look out the door toward the driveway and wonder where my car was. When…
It's National Bike to Work Day. I intend to pedal to work, all five blocks up Main to Spearfish High School, a slightly downhill flight with Lookout Mountain to starboard, Spearfish Peak astern, and Crow Peak to port. Glorious! NPR…
Since 2007, the Hungarian government has promoted the Bike to Work (Bringázz a Munkába) program. Here's one of their delightful TV ads: Put on the hardhat of your choice and ride!
I was out today: Correct me if I'm mistaken, Mr. Kurtz, but the Tinton Trail south from Spearfish is why the gear gods invented mountain bikes. Beautiful forest, fun dipsy doodles, some tricky rocks... awesome! The trail (and a couple…
Sometimes a blogger needs to get away from it all. Here's how I did that this afternoon, just a couple miles west of Spearfish: I'm never lost... just sometimes hard to find.
Lots of tabs on the browser: let's clear the green power queue! Fossil-fuel frontman Mike McDowell says wind power advocates are full of hot air. He waves his hand at vague, unnamed, unhyperlinked "greens" and environmental groups, then proves them…
All sorts of South Dakota politicos are swarming the Black Hills this weekend for Monday's big buffalo round-up at Custer State Park. (Funniest photo-Tweet so far: Daugaard aide Tony Venhuizen comments on Lt. Gov. Michels's encounter with a donkey.) Alas,…