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Bike folk interested in bike travel including bicycle touring, bicycle commuting, bike camping or other fun stuff to do with bikes visit this fun and informative site and blog.
Former bike shop owner, manager and certified bike tech. shares tips, information and links to some of the best resources on the internet.
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Bike Tourings

Bike Tourings is a cool and informative website for many types of bike travelers including bicycle commuting, bicycle touring and a bit of expedition cycling.  I enjoyed looking over the vintage stuff as well as the newer builds.
Bike Tourings has a nice home made style about it which enhances much of the information and resources available at the site. Developed by a former bike shop owner, manager and certified bike tech. the information provided is solid and references many of the foremost experts who have been involved with the aforementioned modes of cycling for several years. 
If you're someone looking for information or resources regarding bike commuting, touring, camping, some repair tips or just some silly bike related ramblings then visit Bike Tourings and enjoy the site by visiting biketourings.com

Genuinely,
Bike Peasant

Completion of Silver Linings Playbook

Interesting Movie, particularly the title reference to finding personal peace and contentment.  Recently took on some rather challenging bike repairs both had issues with steering tubes.  One was bent so badly it had to be heated with a torch so could be bent straight and the other had an over expanded wedge bolt which cracked in the steer tube.  Here are some artsy pics. of the two bikes now riding swift and strong. In reference to the movie, got it.
Genuinely,
Bike Peasant

Freedom, ya!

Things and not to Things, there is no question.

About me:  Former bike shop owner, manager and certified bike mechanic now has more time to ride. Thanks.

Many folks are aware that the best things in life are not things (material objects).  So regarding this topic, see photo above look at the wonderful non material things we cyclists have been able to pick up along the way.   Using the material thing to pick up non material things is like a picnic.  Light workers, light keepers, keep on keepin on and ride somewhere, it's a beautiful thing.

Genuinely, 

Bike Peasant

Earth Day Forgiveness

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Happy Earth Day to my fellow earthlings.  It's as good a day as any to get out and ride our bikes.
I'm happy to say that I went for a nice ride yesterday with an old friend I've known for more than thirty years.  He really enjoyed riding a recent mountain bike build I've been working on, and I enjoyed putting some new rubber on my old steed.   It was a bit of a "shake down" ride and I had two flats along the way, one tube was a manufacturer default and the other was just an old tube.  My pump wasn't cooperating so I was able to air up the rear wheel just enough to get home so I could replace with a new tube.

We have been enjoying some wonderful weather here and very grateful for that as the humidity is very mild and the air temps are very agreeable for riding. As I honor Earth Day I recognize our planet's abundance of natural beauty and wonders I am able to appreciate my part in this ever changing world we live in. I am very grateful for what is so freely offered to us by not abusing our world or taking it too much for granted.  Part of this has to do with forgiveness and I am thanking someone who I've known a couple years for reminding me of this.

I am tired of being so hard on my self.  Some strict ideas and discipline are essential particularly for setting boundaries but getting down on myself or berating my own skills or talents with destructive criticism does not agree with my new efforts to be gentler and healthier..   I am learning to forgive myself by recognizing a personal intimacy I had all but forgotten about.  How I enjoy and value quiet alone time and how I relate inwardly to what is occurring outwardly permits me to set boundaries with myself and others mostly to avoid harmful errors and lessen the frequency of having to exercise forgiveness.  My process of setting boundaries is for this reason and is based on reason.  I appreciate this world for helping me take better care of myself particularly with healthy nourishing foods.  As earthlings our multifaceted existence can often feel overly complicated and perhaps delicate.  I'm not telling anyone what they should be doing, I'm busy learning how I am doing and what I have the power to change.  At times it is quite clear how easy it is to simply be on this earth in a harmoniously gratifying way.  It can be fun to celebrate Nature's teachings and honor Mother Earth's generosity by sharing a kind and gentle method of understanding.  Food for thought while riding today.

Genuinely,
Bike Peasant

Bike peace ant : )

To me most bikes have a peaceful vibe about them.  There is something serene, elegant, nostalgic and simply fun about seeing a bike, a person riding a bike, etc. Particularly with cool old vintage stuff where an air of romance and or mystique of the untold stories of its travels and riders.  Of course bikes of themselves are not living things but us living beings do connect with our bikes, some more than others when they begin to identify with their bikes.  A bit obsessive for sure and the bike world can be that way, obsessive.

That's not peace to me.  I feel peace at different times for different reasons and don't necessarily feel the need to explain that, even to myself.   Fixing a bike, shaping a bike to fit, defining the ride by changing this or that position bring me peaceful moments of accomplishment with out becoming a control freak..  Obsessing over things is not advisable emotionally even if it is with the intention of chasing happy.  Detachment? Aint it cool?  Cold hard cynicism and pessimism do not enter in, this isn't the time for that, what makes me peaceful?  Lots of things and sometimes it's nothing at all when it fills me from within.  Balance, not obsession and bikes by there very nature are balanced,  permeated with peace acquired while riding.  This helps me bring change to my story and at times there's no story at all. 

Bike on, peace within. 

 Genuinely,
Bike Peaceant,  I don't identify with any particular "calling", just don't call me a piss ant.