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Pictured is me in my night riding gear. I like to be as bright as possible on the road at night.

Double spotlight on front handlebars (unfortunately, only one works at the moment)
Three Hokeyspokes on the front wheel
Christmas Light set around the main triangle
Reflective safety vest
Rear blinky lights on helmet, seatpost, and vest

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Doing some lighthouse photography in Maine. While driving in South Portland to the Portland Head lighthouse just around 6AM I was amazed to see many bicyclists on and around Cottage St, presumably heading to work at that hour. I should have counted them, there were dozens. Portland also has numerous bike lanes, including a prominent […]

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I’m not particularly happy that it was crammed into the bailout bill, but I am happy that the Bicycle Commuter Benefits Act was signed into law.
The benefit — up to $20 per month — begins with the new year in 2009. Employers may reimburse employees, tax free, for “reasonable” expenses related to their bike commute, […]

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Acadia trip with JB
10/4/07 to 10/8/07 (Columbus Day Weekend)
I had suggested this trip to my old friend JB as kind of a reliving of our younger days. We hadn’t travelled together in a few years, and I hadn’t been to Acadia since 2003. A young person I knew spent a weekend in Acadia in late […]

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I couldn’t have said it better myself:
If I told you that I was going to give you a magic device that would save you money, save the planet, and, oh yeah, firm up that flab you have been carrying around with you for the last couple of years, what would you say?
http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/08/29/how-to-ride-your-bike-to-work/

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As the summer comes to a close, the temperature gets a little cool, and the air is crisp, that’s biking weather! The kids and I did 14 miles on a beautiful local bike trail that we haven’t been to very often. In fact, it was Daughter and Son’s first time, and my 2nd time there.

Afterward, […]

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Cape Cod Part II: Province Lands
I’ve wanted to bike the Province Lands Bike Trail since our first trip to Cape Cod over 10 years ago. This week I finally got my chance. With Son in the Trail-A-Bike, the two of us rode across some spectacular scenery.
Son gets ready:

Son had a really spectacular time. He […]

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That’s me and Son tagging along on the local bike path. The Adams Trail-A-Bike isn’t that unusual, to my mind, but it gets a lot of comments.

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Daughter loses the training wheels:

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Daughter has long outgrown her little bike with the training wheels. Even though she has done 12-mile rides on it, we all knew that it was long past time to upgrade to something a little bigger … and to ditch the training wheels. But riding on two wheels is a hard thing, and Daughter just […]

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