Spectacular view of blossoming trees, from Shomaru Pass My first foray over Yamabushi Touge and up onto the Green Line was the TCC  Oku...

As a heavier cyclist (around 95kg), I was an obvious target for the marketing buzz some years back when HED came out with its wider 23mm ...

Last Saturday MOB and I spent part of the afternoon visiting areas near Kaminoge.  We had already gone to Positivo a few days before, and MO...

Today was a beautiful day, and it also happened to be the day of the week when I go out to Keio SFC to teach a corporate law class in the pu...

What should have been a (relatively) easy 300 km Brevet turned into a real challenge as a result of weather.  No, it did not rain for the en...

A comparison of a perfectly adequate lock for parking a bicycle in Tokyo, Japan (right) with a barely adequate lock for doing the same in Br...

We assembled at 19:30 at the Baird Beer Nakameguro Taproom to welcome MOB back to Tokyo on his first visit in over 3 years. MOB arrived ...

This weekend work intervened, so I only got in some short rides.  On Sunday, Jerome inspired me to get up early and take a spin leaving home...

The press has been full of stories over the past 8 days about a terrible landslide in Washington State. The death toll is still uncertain, b...

In my tenth consecutive year as a Tokyo resident road cyclist, Spring in Japan brings many familiar scenes.  Of course, the fur tree pollen ...