Category: Lifestyle & Culture

For the casual, recreational bicyclist, choosing the right bike can be confusing and even frustrating. You don’t want to spend thousands of dollars, but you do want to make sure you get a bike of sufficient quality and comfort that you can ride it with pleasure for more than just a year or two. You are somewhere in between the consumer who goes into a discount store and buys the glitziest bicycle available for the wad of bills in his wallet and the bicyclist who strolls into the best bike shop in town, hails all the employees by name, spends the whole rest of the day talking components and races and leaves the store at closing, starry-eyed but empty-handed. Here are some helpful pointers to help you choose the right bike for your body and your purposes.

The message that 9 year-old Carol brought home from school was depressingly predictable.  Two younger girls had narrowly escaped abduction the day before, so could parents please take extra precautions getting children to school and bringing them home. Although every successful abduction is one abduction too many, there are some very large numbers published that … Continue reading Can you ever be prepared for child abduction?