This is one of the Williams Foods facilities in the area. If you've spent any time in the sodium seasoning aisle of a grocery store, ...

About half of my commute takes place on a road that's separated from I-35 by little more than a few sets of railroad tracks and the stan...

Home-bound heat index today: 105. Wind: travel-speed tailwind. Not a good combo. Fortunately, I keep Gatorade mix at the office, and got it ...

Well, that was fast. I mumbled the words "bicycle camping" and a few folks had jumped on it. Mark your calendars. We're goi...

I've been quite displeased with the official Lenexa Midnight Bike Ride route ever since they took it away from old town Lenexa, routing ...

Because clipless is not practical for a pair of 6 mile daily rides... First one to mention dual-sided Platform/SPD pedals or SPD Sandals g...

I'm not a big fan of electric vehicles or hybrids. I make exceptions when the electric vehicle is a kid's toy, beefed up and hacked ...

Still here. Things are just crazy at work. This is what happens when someone asks me to put together a guest post on short notice. While ...

The highlight reel from my homeward commute. The raw footage would be about half an hour of yawn-inducing banality. I have distilled said ya...

Before work yesterday, I decided to ride to the Overland Park breakfast stop at Deanna Rose farmstead. I didn't sleep well the night bef...

Yesterday started Bike Week in Kansas City. Bike Week and I go back about 4 years. Bike Week 2007 was when I set myself to riding both ways ...

Shorts for the morning commute! Friday AM commute: 45 degrees (brr!) Today's AM commute: 75 degrees (perfect!) Now, Mother Nature: ...

As seen on the surly blog, via Lorin 's Google Reader feed: This one time, at raft camp...

Okay, I swear this isn't going to turn into an amateur radio blog, and I swear I'm still riding, albeit not as much as I wish. While...

That is all . Update: Dan Kaminsky calls bullshit . And that may be check mate for me. Of course, if people would quit riding on the si...

It makes me sad, but my wife has asked if I could find a buyer for her Electra Townie 3S. She bought the Townie back in 2008 with her heal...

Wait. What? Temperatures have been fluctuating wildly this month. We've had some beautiful warm weather, several little snow storms,...

I've been interested in Amateur Radio since I was 8 years old. Back then, you had to know Morse code well enough to encode and decode a ...

I woke up to see this: Definitely time for a ride. The main roads have been clear enough to ride on for the past few days, but over-eager...

I spent most of the weekend at KU Medical Center with my wife. On Friday, my sister-in-law and I had a nice lunch with Eric while my wif...