Bicycling magazine... unsubscribe

[porcinea]

Sometimes, magazines make it crystal clear that I am not their target audience. Take this most recent issue of Bicycling magazine (which I thought I canceled last month, hmmm).

Cover headline: LEANER FASTER STRONGER: A simple plan to get fit and

Comments

[porcinea]

Do it! It's the best. My lungs are ENORMOUS now, and I almost fall over when I get off the bike after a long ride, I'm so danged high. :-).

On the next pleasant weekend I am otherwise unengaged, I am off on my first overnight! Packing lists galore.... Will report back.

[porcinea]

It was a journey. I started out wearing mine religiously. I'd been riding near-daily for over a year before I considering taking it off. What prompted me was re-evaluating my risks. I have ALWAYS been extremely careful about sun exposure. I don't use sunscreen for Reasons[tm]. I do wear a hat, cover my skin, seek out shade. On the bike, you can't avoid the sun; you have to bike where the path is, facing the appropriate direction, etc. After my 2nd? 3rd? (I think it was only 2nd -- I have some sense) Actual Real OMG SUNBURN! I calculated my head-injury risks against my skin cancer risks. I hadn't fallen off my bike in ages; when I did fall, my head was nowhere in jeopardy -- it was all slo-mo style, graceful catching self on the way down type shit. Moreover, I'd been reading up on helmet studies -- safety not proven, protection extended for <12mph collisions. And studies of driver behavior around helmet-wearing cyclists -- more risks taken, less leeway granted. And then there was Marilyn Dershowitz -- killed on the block

[syringavulgaris]

I have been reading "my cyclist friends on teh internets" and, for local info, Gothamist. I would like to have better sources of regular wisdom for the Casual Commuter Cyclist.

[porcinea]

I should check your ... hang on, do you tweet?

[syringavulgaris]

I do not.

[ailbhe]

I wear a helmet *very carefully fitted* and at least partially as an example to my children. I get the horrors when I see loose helmets. But my helmet has never made me unpleasantly sweaty.

[porcinea]

I do seem to be special that way -- no other friends report such vicious head sweat. But, dang!! Rivers.

[syringavulgaris]

I don't have *vicious* head sweat, but it mildly bugs me and I had rather not use one. But the insanity of the drivers up here suggests that it is prudent (at the speeds and angles involved, I think I'm more likely to go sailing through the air and come down on the pavement and crack my sconce than actually be run over).

[selki]

I don't know how they are in most of their issues, but I enjoyed the "Bikes In Space" issue of *Taking the Lane* (which is mostly non-fiction, as I understand it).
http://takingthelane.com/product/bikes-in-space/