It doesn’t matter how many bikes some cyclists have. There is always another bike on the horizon. If you’ve got a racing bike, a mountain bike, a commuter, a tourer, it may be hard to justify yet another bike. So, to help you, we’re going to create another bike category. It’s the “going-out bike” (GOB). […]
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Americans love wars. Not actual wars but metaphorical wars. There’s the War on Christmas, the War on Workers. I’ve personally fought (and lost) the War on Country Music, the War on Eating Meat, and the War on Short Hair. (Thank you George Jones, chorizo sausage, and Grandpa Snyder.) In the Seattle area some people would
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The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom: 1879-1960 Douglas Brinkley Harper Collins Books, 2010, 576 pages In the mid-1950’s, as protection for “Arctic Alaska” loomed, the conservation interests pushing for preservation recognized that, “In the end, the American people would have to demand that Arctic Alaska be saved.” In The Quiet World Douglas Brinkley describes the
