Author Archives: Richard Masoner

Richard Masoner

I ride bikes.

"Ladies" bikes?

Larry lives in a retirement community in my town. He had hip replacement surgery a while back and likes this old Dahon because he can step right into the frame without swinging a leg over a top tube. “And it doesn’t look like a girl’s bike,” he tells me.

Happy Friday

7Up Vintage Bicycle pennant .

Bike Snob NYC – The Book

Coming Real Soon Now: Bike Snob NYC Book. And this guy already read the book and posted a tiny review (of sorts). Lactate Intolerant has a slightly more in depth review. Bike Snob NYC in the NY Times last summer, mentioning his book.

Urbana Bikes

I first noticed Urbana Bikes last August, after Kemptor launched the brand in Canada. They sent a review unit to me; I posted a First Look to Commute By Bike this morning. Like I mention at CBB, I’ll be putting this bike through its paces, but I’ll mention already that this bike is a ton read more »

Cyclelicious 2.0

After five years of using Blogger I’m finally converting over to WordPress.  I believe I have things more or less functional for now, though I’ll tweak things over the next couple of weeks. I’m having difficulty migrating fives years of content from Blogger over to WordPress, but you can still view the old content here. read more »

Fat tires and float

I’m having a lot of fun trying the Urbana Bike bicycle. I hope to have an initial review on Commute By Bike in the next day or two. Those ultra fat 2.6 inch tires on the Urbana suggest to me that they might “float” wonderfully on the snow, and Urbana confirmed for me that the read more »