My Experience Buying and Using the Giro Vanquish Helmet
The helmet I’ve had my eye on for a while is a Giro Vanquish. Skip down to the features if what you’re interested in is how those features are working for me. And here...
Category: The Stuff
We don’t buy a lot of gear, and sometimes what we buy will fit better under the thrift and vintage categories, but we love the stuff we love, or might change something if we could. Here’s the spot to talk about it. Title is an homage to Bernadette Peters in The Jerk. “I don’t mind loosing the money, it’s tha stuu uffff!”
Cameras Part Deux
Sometimes I chide myself for focusing on the wrong thing at the wrong time. I have to get funding before camera decisions decisions matter. At the same time, I need credibility as someone who...
Cycling Jerseys
For all of my lack of attention to the finer points that cycling gear aficionados care about, I’m a little picky about jerseys (and tights) though, not really in the usual way. In general,...
Racking it Up, Bicycle Racks
Racks are pretty quick and easy to talk about. Through the years, I’ve tried a variety of different kinds of options. As a kid growing up in the rural south, riding my bike always...
Cameras and Tech
The Cameras Up to now, I thought that at the first or lowest goal level, this project would be accomplished with the GpPro Hero Black I already own. But, when I went to remind...
Cycling Footwear
Never underestimate the importance of footwear. It protects your feet, and they are your foundation. Feet are the metaphoric and literal means by which you take a step forward, and the point that transfers...
Road Bikes and Recumbents
Bikes are the big scary question mark right now. Not only do we have bikes in need of repairs (me) and an overhaul (Russ), but we’re also going to need recumbents to ride half...
Getting Real About Gear
I didn’t expect to be so heavily into needing to make gear and equipment decisions this early on. It’s beginning to feel like my wax rubbing Kickstarter. Never heard of that? It was going...