Archive for the ‘Frontier Cyclist’ Category
Frontier Cyclist: Winter’s Remorse
Posted by: Peter Lillis on: February 16, 2011
Janie, baby, I miss you. Little darling, It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, and I know that I no longer want to be apart. I know I’ve been an ass, but it’s been so hard without you. These few solo months have helped me reassess our relationship, and I just want you to hear [...]
Bike Snob – Book Review by Will Kenton
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: January 25, 2011
- In: Bike Snob | Book Reviews | Books | Frontier Cyclist | Literary Frontier | Will Kenton
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I have a friend, a novelist, who lives in Jackson, Wyoming. You probably know Jackson as the home of great skiing and Dick Cheney. It features spaces so wide open they had to order an extra-big sky, and mountains so perfect a couple of French guys named them “the big tits” (i.e. Grand Tetons). This [...]
Frontier Cyclist, vol. 23 – Bike Math (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
- In: Bikes | Frontier Cyclist | Micaela Blei
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The mathematics of living is invisible, ghosted like dry erase marker on my father’s whiteboard. The mathematics of bicycling, however, is about to be much, much clearer. Bike academia is back! When I was a kid, my mathematician father had his office in our basement. One wall was dominated by a whiteboard, which had not [...]
Frontier Cyclist vol. 15 – Maxims of Biking (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
[Today we're thrilled to have a guest cycling post by Jeff Wilser, acclaimed author and syndicated columnist, expert on the art of modern manhood, and perhaps the only ex-Marine with a Master's degree in Creative Writing.] A year ago I switched to biking. It seemed like the thing to do: better for the planet, better [...]
Frontier Cyclist, vol. 20 – 1,600 Mile Summer (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 29, 2010
- In: Bikes | Bob Dylan | Brooklyn | Frontier Cyclist | James Yeh
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[Our weekly urban cycling column appears on Tuesdays] Last year I broke two of my front teeth in a bike crash. I was drunk; the street, icy. — After the crash, I didn’t ride for a few days. But pretty soon, within a week or two, really, I was back at it again. Now I ride [...]
Frontier Cyclist – An Englishman Bikes in New York
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 28, 2010
- In: Bikes | Frontier Cyclist | Jay Tarbath
- 3 Comments
For the aspiring cyclist Mark Twain has this solitary piece of advice: tackle “one villainy…at a time.”Although I am a knowledgeable rider, Twain’s counsel resonates as an apt description of my cycling experience in New York: I’m an Englishman who has lately been forced onto the pot-holed roads by escalating subway costs (and an expanding [...]
Ask a (Frontier) Psychiatrist (Best of FP 2010)
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: December 21, 2010
- In: Ask FP | Frontier Cyclist
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Dear Frontier Psychiatrist, Last week, you featured Sun Airway’s video for “Put the Days Away.” It combined my love of cute girls, bikes, and music. Do you know of any other music videos that feature bikes so prominently? -Handle-Bar Moustache Dear HBM, Here at FP, each member of our staff has his or her strengths [...]
Frontier Cyclist – Bike Pacing
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 21, 2010
When two or more cyclists take one ride, there’s negotiation involved. How you keep up, nudge faster, double back, move in tandem—your feelings come out when you bike with someone else. 1. Pacing on a Date, or: How to Take it Slow and Not Lose Momentum D. and I biked to Red Hook together on [...]
Frontier Cyclist – Bike Theft
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 14, 2010
- In: Bikes | Cycling | Frontier Cyclist | Micaela Blei
- 3 Comments
If you ride a lot, you certainly identify with your bike. You might feel silly admitting it, or you might have named your bike and given it a comforter to sleep under at night. Either way, that thing is part of you. So how can we possibly lock up a little piece of ourselves on [...]
Frontier Cyclist – ‘Hapless’ Females and Bike Shops
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 30, 2010
- In: Bikes | Cycling | Frontier Cyclist | Micaela Blei
- 3 Comments
Have you ever felt patronized in a wine store? How about a record shop? Somehow the boys who sell records always seem to be judging your devotion to Rick Astley. If you’re not an expert in arcane roots music, it feels as though you’re trespassing on their time and space. Bike shops can be worse. [...]
