Welcome to the kick off of Thrown Chain’s cycling FASHION WEEK! Ironically, I am a pretty UNfashionable person, but even I get sucked into fashion decision considerations. So! Who said helmets have to be dorky and lame? Helmets can be sexy! YAKKAY (in Denmark, hence the weird company name) sells helmets that don’t even look…
So Fashion Week here on Thrown Chain hasn’t yet officially started, as no one should be online during a three day weekend. Therefore, if you need a quick smile, here are two cycling fashion related posts on one of the best sites on the interweb, The Onion. Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks “Throughout…
So I’ve posted before about trying to ride naked and the unpleasant smushiness on my girl bits. Well, the girl bits got fully assaulted this week while commuting to work. Apparently my commutes are wrought with peril. Literally in front of my work building (which is actually a security gate to the overall lot), I…
Last June I blogged about an incident where I almost crashed into a darting child while doing speed intervals. Today while commuting into work, I almost crashed into yet another “pedestrian”. I was flying downhill when I saw a few people darting across the street (no crosswalks). I saw a little Asian elderly lady hovering…
During the Giro d’Italia, Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt crashed on a mountain side descent. Now, not just “crash”, like the average “woohoo!” crashes during le Tour*. I mean like, “meet your maker” crash. Gory Details (cited directly from article): Weylandt “died instantly” and “did not suffer The rider suffered fatal skull and facial injuries as…
Bicycling.com article that is reposted below I really liked this article so I wanted to re-post. Think they missed anything?? Here are seven parts of your bike that should never be out of sight or out of mind. 1) Smooth Brake Pads What You See: It’s what you don’t see–the small grooves in your pads…
Normally when you hear miles and miles of street being closed to cars in Los Angeles, you would think that hell froze over. And that there are a lot of angry motorists in that part of town. Well, both are pretty much true. It snowed recently in L.A. (!!! – and sadly, on the day…
I grew up in a pretty much all white town in Northern Massachusetts. So I never thought much about racism. I understood the concept, but never actually had to apply it in real life. Boston is pretty much all white, too (or was back when I lived there and the parts of Boston I went…
While riding to work, I like to look around and take in the strange sights that the city has to offer. You know, instead of maybe looking ahead of me and being alert to serious dangers in the road. Well, I AM doing that as well. It’s nice having a Type 2 Bike Pathway (bike…
I have started to bike to work again. I pulled up to the bike rack today and noticed that pretty much no one else locked up their bikes. I stood, stared and pondered. Should I lock my bike? Will that make it seem like I don’t trust the security staff? If others don’t lock their…