This past weekend provided a visual feast for those who see the bicycle as art. From Tucson’s Bicycle Swap Meet and Alley Cat Bike Scavenger hunt, we have…

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Tucson’s Bike Fest 2008 ended this past Sunday. The final event was a scavenger hunt for a good cause. And it started and ended at one of our coolest two-wheeled places, BICAS…

The 5th annual Alley Cat Bike Scavenger Hunt was a fundraiser for El Grupo Youth Cycling, and it attracted 134 riders. The cycling sleuths […]

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Yesterday was a total bicycle day in Downtown Tucson. The day started with the El Bike Swap de Tucson on Fourth Avenue. It’s one of the largest bicycle swap meets in the country…

The swap’s a good place for some great deals on bicycles, bike parts, and tools…

And it wouldn’t be a Tucson event without some […]

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Was pedaling over to a Saturday afternoon class, and what should I encounter but the massive Interstate 10 widening project. This construction project is causing all sorts of headaches for the motoring public, and it’s supposed to continue until 2010.
I-10’s Downtown Tucson worksite was chock-full of barricades, mud, heavy equipment, and other obstacles that […]

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This is the fourth in a series of posts on combining bicycling with photography. This one’s about carrying your photographic gear.
As mentioned previously, I’ve done a lot of traveling by bike. To put it mildly, this is a lesson in minimalism. You don’t have a lot of space in your bike packs, so a […]

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This is a tribute to one of my bicycling heroes, Lionel “Lee” Rombach. He died last month at the age of 93.
Up until a few years ago, Lee logged thousands of miles per year on a used Univega six-speed. Meanwhile, Ina the Car sat at home, gathering dust. He only drove a few hundred miles […]

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Enjoyed the opportunity to have lunch at the Guadalajara Grill. It’s just north of one of Tucson’s most interesting neighborhoods, Richland Heights West.
This neighborhood like a throwback to the Old West, only it’s right in the heart of the city. RHW residents are quite fond of their natural desert environment and their dirt roads, […]

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I get around by bicycle. Most of my riding is utilitarian, ’round town stuff, but when I was younger, I biked all over the United States.
While I was out on the road, my carrying space was limited. So was my strength. Which meant that I was forced to take a minimalist approach to photography. I […]

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