SpokEasy

April 2019

Nocturne?

Nocturne sounds to me first and foremost like a piece of music. However, there\’s no way I can haul along a piano on a bicycle ride. This wasn\’t truly a nocturnal ride; it was nearing dawn. But it was still dark enough for the rising old crescent moon to be gorgeous. When I first spotted […]

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White Noise?

We hear about using \”white noise\” to help create a soothing atmosphere for sleep. I don\’t know about anybody else, but conventional white noise drives me crazy! It\’s too high in frequency for me. Maybe we cyclists need a different kind of white noise. How about sounds of the peloton? The freewheel during coasting; the

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The Fixin\’s

Turkey with all the fixin\’s is the typical Thanksgiving Day dinner in the USA. But how about the fixin\’s when it comes to a bicycle\’s mechanical problems? On any ride, there\’s always the possibility that something will go awry. It might be a flat tire; or it might be a broken spoke. It seems logical

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