The following post was written for BikeHugger.com, a site I contribute to on occasion but is helpful for the Rockland and Westchester riders lost off on the winding local roads.

Like many things we now take for granted, the Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed for the military—the ability to determine precise location down (with [...]

My forefathers were likely hunter-gatherers who roamed the plains of Eastern Europe chasing herds of mastodon. A quick glance at my physique (spongy and soft when I don’t work out, able to go from flab to fit instantly when I do) and you can tell that my people were from a time in man’s evolution [...]

I’m a big Twitter fan (davidjschloss, if you’re interested). Twitter (for those in hibernation) is a social networking tool that allows people to send short messages to people who are following them, and it allows users to follow other Twitter feeds, called Tweets.

I’m following a ton of cyclists this year, as many of them [...]

In Africa, a bike, the simple two-wheeled object many of us take for granted, can transform a life. In fact, it can transform many lives. Each bike on average helps twenty people in Africa, which is why the site DoubleBikeMatch.org is so high up my list this holiday season for charitable donations. World Bicycle Relief [...]

Have you ever played Guitar Hero or Rock Band? Have you ever ridden a bike? Have you EVER thought of combining the two?

This guy has, and it’s amazing.

It might be the dead-of-winter (well, almost the dead of winter) but all over the world professional cyclists are heading out to start training for 2009. While you and I might never join the ranks of pro cyclists (I certainly won’t, at least) it’s still fun to keep up on the activities of the pro [...]

WhiteHouse2.org has a simple goal—help plan president-elect Obama’s first 100 days in the white house. The site allows people to vote on agenda items for the president to consider when he gets into office. One of the items is better bicycle-pedestrian infrastructure for our oil-addicted country. Want to push this up the roster? Visit

What is it? It’s a time trial bike (or TT bike), also sometimes called a Triathlon bike, depending on who is using it.

What’s a time trial? A Time trial is a specialized racing event in which (generally speaking) individual cyclists ride a fixed length course one rider at a time (separated by intervals) competing for [...]

This will be the first in a series of posts about different bike types. Hopefully it’ll provide a look at some of the different bikes available, but mostly photographing bikes and talking about bikes is part of my velo lust.

What is it? It’s a fixed gear Felt Curbside. It’s 18.75 pounds of pure cycling fun, [...]

A few weeks ago I returned from the Olympic Games with great stories about riding my Bike Friday through the Beijing, and what a fantastic time I had in China.

I also returned with an upper respiratory infection that has been sapping my energy and filling my lungs with unpleasant gunk. I have not, as a [...]