GlassesUSA.com Has Sports Glasses for Almost Every Activity

We’ve often sung the praises of GlassesUSA.com for their endless assortment of sunnies and shades, excellent deals and prescription offerings. But did you know they offer frames and sunnies specifically designed for sports and activities, too? We’re talking glasses and shades for tennis, golf, hiking and cycling. We’re talking frames that stay on your face […]

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Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp

Pray to get ahead or to keep your head. Bicycle helmets have really taken off recently. In the months leading up to Japan’s stricter cycling violation penalties, I noticed many more people around me wearing them, and after the laws went into effect, they even started selling out in a lot of stores. That’s great […]

Rolling.bike

A useful new web app for generating ride briefs is now available at the brilliantly named rolling.bike. Upload your GPX file, or sync your routes via Strava or Ride with GPS, provide some context and Rolling will generate a well structured ride brief.

Here's a walked through example:

A quick summary of this route:

Start at Botanics

The hilly comb of First-to-Fifth Avenue

Hillview

Lorong…

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‘Sabay tulog?’ Torre answers fires back at basher over bike commute

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) General Manager Nicolas Torre responded to a basher who commented about his activity after clocking in at the office. The former top cop replied to a Facebook user who claimed he would be “sleeping” after clocking in after biking to his office. At that time, Torre shared his “successful” bike […]

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‘Respect every ride’: Torre’s advocacy to end walking and biking stigma wins public support

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) General Manager Nicolas Torre III’s advocacy to promote cycling in Metro Manila was welcomed online. In December 2025, an X (formerly Twitter) user reacted to reports that the former top cop had been given a role in the MMDA. “Gen. Torre, I know you’re a cop. But please also be […]

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This cyclist has gotten 36 London drivers banned

Last year, a Fiat 500 driver deliberately plowed into Michael van Erp, sending his electric bike scattering across the road. What did he do for the rest of the day? "Went out and Gandalf'd a load more people."

Erp — known to London's motorists as Cycling Mikey — has reported over 2,400 drivers to the Metropolitan Police since 2019 for using their phones at the wheel. — Read the rest

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Bike Thieves: The Sequel

Last year, I shared that someone tried stealing my e-bike and that they later managed to damage the battery. Yet, they did not steal anything. Well, I've now got a much juicier story: my normal bike has been stolen while parked at the central station's new bike parking.

When we get komooted

"Digital enclosure is the continuation of the physical enclosure of land. This sophisticated form of digital extraction is so common that it’s almost unremarkable. But there’s a wrenching contradiction here between Komoot’s stated mission of 'enabling access' to public land while privatizing and exclusively profiting from those very movements. They take our most meaningful encounters...

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