How to Build Retro Direct Gearing [From BA 42-500]

Will retro direct gearing make a comeback almost 100 years after it fell out of fashion?

Evan P. SchneiderOctober 10, 2018

Someone building a bike while seated on a bench…a black and white portrait of a bearded, plaid-shirted man in a knit cap standing in some sun-filtered alleyway, smoke drifting up through a fire escape.

Evan P. SchneiderOctober 9, 2018

Ride Predictions [From 42-500]

What we know is that it may never get any easier than this. What we don’t know is what’s coming.

Evan P. SchneiderOctober 8, 2018

10+ | Pre Day: A Map for Things

…there’s this new way to learn the upshifts of land/ and continent, what is discarded or pitched/ for someone like you to find. You get on your bicycle.

Evan P. SchneiderOctober 1, 2018

Displacement [From BA 42-300]

“…bicycling embodies completeness with nature,/ with one’s environment and surroundings/ yet it places the cyclist in utter displacement…”

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 27, 2018

Full Moon Ride Schedule [From BA 43-400]

The surface temperature of the moon fluctuates from roughly +300° F during the two-week daytime to -270° F during the two-week nighttime. So please, dress appropriately.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 24, 2018

Review: Linus Roadster Classic [From 43-200]

The bike, it turns out, is perfect for Sunday morning rides in which small puffs of Alder Blend come up around your face and behind the lenses of your eyeglasses.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 23, 2018

Cycle of Cycles [From 42-300]

That most beautiful never-ending cycle we know: install, ride, tweak, uninstall, reinstall, adjust, remove, refine, ride, sell, etc. On and on it goes into that great unknown future.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 22, 2018

Review: David V. Herlihy's The Lost Cyclist [From BA 43-100]

The bicycle dominates the collective imagination and opens doors of incredible opportunity and loss.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 21, 2018

Ad Infinitum [From BA 43-200]

I rode around the block for a quick test run. As I was rounding the corner, I noticed that the wheel wasn’t rotating correctly either—it was getting stuck somewhere along the way.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 20, 2018

Backward, Turn Backward [From BA 43-500]

I do not need to meet/ them as they are today as some memories/ are sacred like fresh linen folded and/ put away like rivers to the sea like beach/ bone-dried sea shells waiting for/ generations to be collected.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 20, 2018

Walking Through, Riding Home [From BA 43-500]

A big mare coaxing me to/ ride past barns, haystacks, down by/ the old silver river, the Mississippi,/ and on board a noisy steamboat…

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 13, 2018

Your Bike Will Wait For You [From 43-300]

No one ever said that because you believe in cycling you’re not allowed to believe in anything else. And that’s the beauty of it—cycling will always be there, and is open to your doing other things.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 12, 2018

10th Anniversary | Good Morning World! [From BA 42-200]

I spent most of my day in the art bike pit watching the smiles, and I was truly impressed with the amount of unicycle talent in your town.

Evan P. SchneiderSeptember 8, 2018

Vulture Space and the Bike Shop Spectrum [From BA 43-500]

Those shops that have kept to the roots of riding offer a visit to simpler times where biking is fun, accessible, and not about the fancy things that the shop has for sale, but the experience that two wheels can offer.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 29, 2018

Full Moon Ride Schedule [From BA 43-200]

Maybe this is the summer you learn to spot Cassiopeia, or maybe you’ll study always and forever when the moon is waxing and waning.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 24, 2018

Thundering Home [From BA 42-400]

Mere minutes into the ride, the temperature drops noticeably and the wind picks up. Dry leaves smack into my arms and sand stings my eyes.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 24, 2018

Review: Cargo Nets [From BA 43-100]

It is terribly embarrassing—if not also extremely inconvenient and dangerous for you and everyone else— to inadvertently litter your various possessions behind you as you ride.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 21, 2018

Review: Tim Krabbé’s The Rider [From BA 43-100]

A section in which Krabbé reflects on his sporting career at age five or fifteen can follow on the heels of a description of a particularly grueling climb up one of the race’s many cols.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 21, 2018

Dispatch from An Alleycat in Lyon, France [From BA 43-300]

I realized I’d explored the entire city of Lyon, with minimal expense and a lot of fun—a far cry from the typical hackneyed tourist experience.

Evan P. SchneiderAugust 19, 2018