When I was a kid growing up in Rapid City, South Dakota, there was another kid who lived next door who, like me, had a bike. But while mine was powered by my legs, his was powered by a 2-cycle gasoline engine. He bought it from the mail order catalog company Montgomery Ward. In those […]
We’re having an extraordinarily mild summer here in New England: low temperatures and humidity, really fine weather if you don’t mind didging the more occasional rain. Today was about as perfect for a bike ride as it ever gets here, so my wife and I took advantage of it to get the big wheels of […]