Riding Through Camas, Plums, Apples [From BA 42-400]

better cadence / and fallen plums / and fallen apples / for our rear packs / and a momentary snack

Evan P. SchneiderApril 8, 2018

Bicycles and Women on Vintage Cycling Posters [From BA 42-500]

The implicit messages to women in many of these posters were revolutionary for fin-de-siècle society.

Evan P. SchneiderApril 6, 2018

Is Biking, Is Rain [From BA 42-300]

Flags along the route were not placed there to dissuade us, or turn us back. We see that the wind really is against us, the rain truly horizontal on cheeks, and we are not totally wimps, but it may still take us a while to arrive.

Evan P. SchneiderApril 5, 2018

Full Moon Ride Schedule [From BA 42-500]

The water within you seeks communion with the water outside you. And that water will tell you everything.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 31, 2018

The Affect of Cycling [From BA 43-400]

It's precisely because the bicycle creates rather than eliminates the need for physical labor that it's so gallant. When we ride bicycles, we reconnect with ourselves and the world.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 29, 2018

Twenty-First Century Field Trip [From BA 43-500]

Along the top of the levee/ clad in sleek frogman outfits/ a group of young bikers/ skulls down for optimum aerodynamics

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 28, 2018

Review: The Competition Bicycle: A Photographic History, by Jan Heine [From BA 42-300]

A thoroughly gorgeous book...a testament to what extremes others have used the bicycle, and the distances they've gone, to get where they are going—and fast.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 21, 2018

The ABC's of Bicycling [From BA 43-200 – BA 43-500]

The singular beauty of the bicycle is that it does provide for your everyday personal transportation, even as it nudges your mind toward a liberating new perspective.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 17, 2018

Review: Beckett's Molloy [From BA 42-400]

The whole experience of reading Molloy is like riding in circles and may make you carefully reconsider how you act and talk and live when your bicycle is present.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 17, 2018

Commuter's Essential Toolbox [From BA 42-100]

A long history of bicycle evolution correlates to an interesting, yet dense and seemingly infinite list of tools to go along with it.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 14, 2018

Review: Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman [From BA 42-400]

One of the many wonders of The Third Policeman is how it obscurely exemplifies the heights to which the bicycle is capable of being elevated and personified, if not also totally deified.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 12, 2018

10th Anniversary | Yeoman on the Front Lines: A Commuter's Daily Diary [From BA 42-100]

Today it feels like the whole world yields to me and I make it all the way to work without touching my feet to the ground.

Evan P. SchneiderMarch 5, 2018

Review: Bicycle, by Paul Fattaruso (illust. Adam Thompson) [From BA 42-300]

Beautiful glimpses of the bicycle so heartfelt and wonderful we wish we could stamp them on our souls.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 28, 2018

(Bicycles + Automobiles) 23.5" = Frenemies [From BA 43-100]

I’m relying on you to pack me a path/ While quietly filtering your fumes/ through my lungs

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 27, 2018

Full Moon Ride Schedule [From BA 43-100]

The corn moons and harvest moons are behind you now and cold awaits around every corner.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 27, 2018

Review: The Ice Storm [From BA 42-300]

In The Ice Storm, Wendy’s solitary bike ride is the only moment of ease or grace that appears to occur anywhere in town.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 21, 2018

Review: Riding in Couples [From BA 43-200]

Boneshaker's handy safety tips for biking comfortably in pairs.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 21, 2018

Positive Power: Wholesome Capital and Independence in Transportation Systems [From BA 42-200]

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.” ~ Étienne de La Boétie, 1553

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 19, 2018

What Bicycling Does and Doesn't Mean [From BA 42-200]

Bicycling is at its very core an alone journey, and when you undertake it, it will be because you and no one else decided to do so.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 15, 2018

The Thaw, Again [From BA 42-300]

We were on bicycles in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere with no one to blame but ourselves.

Evan P. SchneiderFebruary 6, 2018