Remember: NO bicycles on the sidewalk in front of Charley’s Records at the corner of Menaul & Pennsylvania. No “skate boards,” or “skates” either. I don’t remember seeing a bike rack, either, but I might have just missed sighting it. Fabulous bollards, however. Happy Harvest Festival, everybody.

Some of us, particularly those of us sharing a generally misanthropic outlook, tend to denigrate the Albuquerque Bosque Path (and its many varied names such as “Riverside Trail”) due to its popularity. “We” say/think things like: “I don’t like the Path because it’s so great that too many other people use it.” Dummies us, because… Read More The Great Bosque Path at its Greatest

In her novel Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor antaprotagonist Hazel Motes blinds himself, wraps his torso in barbed-wire, and walks around with pointy rocks in his shoes in attempted atonement for, well, we’re not exactly sure. Hazel has done some bad things, including killing somebody, but most folks wouldn’t go to quite the extreme Mr. Motes… Read More Slow Cycling and Flannery O’Connor

Yesterday’s ride, or at least part of it, exceeded the general scope of “slow cycling” to the point of “walking 53 lb. ebike up a couple of hundred yards of that multi-use path running from Boca Negra Visitor Center up to Unser Blvd.” And that was the most fun part of a very fun “ride.”… Read More Slow Cycling: Boca Negra Canyon

As we focus toward appealing to the absolute lowest number of readers possible (I write this half-jokingly), which of the two following facts is more obscure (note: this is hard): If we were asking the above in Colombo, Sri Lanka right now, this would be a no-brainer, but for almost all of us here in… Read More Slow Cycling: North ABQ Bosque

Typical rides the last few months have included more squiggles than a paramecium, but yesterday’s was such a straight shot, I can tell you the whole route in about seven moves: Bosque Path to William St. to Coal/Zuni, through the Los Altos Golf Course to I-40 Path to NM-333 to NM-14 and thirty miles later… Read More Slow Cycling: Lantern Ridge by Ebike