Eiko is 84 years old and rides 150 miles for Bike MS in New Jersey. She’s done this for 26 years now!

Photo courtesy Glenn Cantor and published with his kind permission.

This is an amazing story: 84 year old Lan Yin “Eiko” Tsai rides 150 miles on an old single speed bike (complete with front basket) wearing high heels and a dress to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. And she’s been doing this for 26 years now and is a fixture at the MS-150 City to Shore ride in New Jersey.

A tiny 84-year-old woman wears a neat, green turtleneck dress and an embroidered jacket. On her feet is a pair of high-heeled pumps. Her salt-and-pepper hair peeks out from the helmet that indicates she is, in fact, a participant in the bike ride. Her old-fashioned one-speed bicycle is purple, with a large wire basket on the front that carries her belongings and her number for the ride.
Lan Yin Tsai doesn’t give the impression that she could go five miles on that bike, let alone 150. But that’s what she’s done — for the past 26 years.

Read more –> Biking 150 miles for a cause. H/T to Alicia.

Twitter tool Twackle allows you to embed tweets from various sports categories into your website. Pick from football, baseball, basketball, auto racing, and several other sports. I picked cycling.

What do you think? Annoying diversion? Or useful tool?

I seem to be fixated on weather today.

The blue arrow in the map below shows part of my evening bike commute route along Middlefield Road from Palo Alto to Mountain View.

The arrows at the bottom of this illustration show forecast wind direction and speed today.

It should be a fast ride to the train station tonight.

P.S. to Colorado: Enjoy the snow tomorrow!

Check out these upright ‘water cycles’ apparently available for rent in Venice, Italy.

I can’t find anything about these bike boats on the web — has anybody seen something like this before? I’m curious how these are propelled — what’s the connection between the pedals and the paddle or propeller?

Planet Bike has Schrader valve tire pressure gauges in their catalog. These are the regular pencil guages that you can find in any auto parts store for about five bucks.

What’s amusing are the customer reviews for this pressure gauge at Amazon.com, where a ten pack runs for $37.

1. “At 50 cents a piece, [the pressure gauges are] hard to resist. At this price, I don’t mind giving them away to friends and family.” Definitely not a math major.

2. “Are they 100% accurate? I don’t know, I don’t have a calibration kit. Do my tires feel really firm when the gauge says 65psi? Yes. That was my way of ‘calibrating’ them.” If gauging tire pressure by feel works well enough for you, why bother with the pressure gauge?

Do you use a small tire gauge for your bike tires? I use the pressure gauge built into the floor pump.