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TweetHello Boston Biker, nice to meet you. This is the story of Jessie and Charlie the blue bicycle. We’ve been blogging here since 2010 and now it’s time for a little something new… Charlie has been...
View ArticleSun Tzu on a bicycle?
TweetCycling and soft power, part 1 I’m a veggie powered girl on a bike and I am changing the world. By riding a bike. An enigma on wheels…. Adventure rolling by… Before I braved these city streets...
View ArticleFrom a girl’s perspective
TweetI’ve been reading some of the bloggers on Boston Biker sharing how they deal with four season variability whilst cycling in Boston. With the exception of this brilliant piece of wit, I haven’t...
View ArticleWriting Exercises: Charlie’s Post
TweetWriting exercises, from my bicycle’s point of view: Hello, My name is Charlie. I’m from Austria and I’m blue. We know at least that much because my sticker says so. I’m a bit of a lost boy you...
View ArticleTales from the Road: Parts
TweetCharlie went fixie in October, we went through a cog in 5 months…. ….that meant replacing half the drive train after 1,700 miles. the new and never used freewheel New Dura-Ace cog SRAM chain...
View ArticleThe Lost Boy
TweetThis is Charlie enjoying his morning soy cortado from the ERC whilst on his way to work…. Charlie's morning cortado But besides being fabulous and blue and my longtime companion (7,500mi and...
View ArticleThe Hills are Alive with the Tick of Derailleurs
Tweet98% of the time I ride a fixed gear. Be it Charlie or Mercutio – this is most of my bicycle life. However, I also have a bike with gears, gasp! She is a Bianchi Veloce with a Campagnolo groupset...
View ArticleWarp Cores and My Bicycle the Time Machine: What it Means to be Human
TweetI attended a most interesting talk on quantum computing (and a mess of other things) by a noted professor of MIT in December (in a pub). (Hat-tip to the Bandit Man for this suggestion.) Besides...
View ArticleA Grander Vision: the Midnight Marathon and Redefining Security
TweetI wanted to tell a much different story than this, but this is the story that I am going to tell. Monday was one of the best days, then one of the worst. And it started on Sunday. One of the best...
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