With "normal" road and touring bicycles, design is a matter of minor refinements.  Different sizes, thicknesses and shapes of tubi...

Miyagase-ko More Miyagase-ko Aikawa/Hanbara area after dusting of snow. Sunday I rode my first brevet of 2016, a 200 kilom...

Last sunset of 2015, from Kamakura on the Shonan Coast 2015 was for me a year of dramatic change.  So I was elated that I managed to com...

I can remember the first year or two I was road cycling, I would enthusiastically pick up "Bicycling" magazine in the U.S. and rea...

First, there were Hokusai's famed 36 views of Fuji . Then Hiroshige followed suit in the 1850s with another 36 view series . Now I h...

This Fall I continue to teach a class at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus on Wednesday afternoons.  More often than not, I do th...

We have had seesawing weather these past weeks in Japan, some days unseasonably wet, some days typical winter cold and wind, and even some d...