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A homemade map holder for my bicycle

Published in August 11th, 2020
Posted by in How to, Transportation
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Upon request, I post a picture of the handlebar map holder I made for my touring bicycle. It’s a thin piece of plywood (or whatever you have, other wood, plastic, metal) cut out to fit standard AAA road maps. It’s attached to a mountain bike handlebar with a quill stem. I drilled some holes and […]

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I just rotated my bicycle tires to make them last longer

Published in August 6th, 2020
Posted by in How to, Transportation
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When I started commuting I put in 3800 miles on my bicycle. For those fitness nuts out there that is 171,000 kcal (figure 20mph corresponding to 900 kcal/hour) or the equivalent of 40 pounds of fat or about half a pound a week. How is that for weight loss? (*) No wonder I eat like […]

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Top 5 reasons why sidewalks are not safe

Published in July 28th, 2020
Posted by in Transportation
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In this new series of posts I give popular personal finance advise in an easily digestible list format of tips, reasons, things, and so on. I will tell you how you too can be rich, good-looking, or perhaps just plain awesome by adopting these amazing insights which have been developed by a real PhD. Also […]

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