Kent's Bike Blog

I've been devoting a good chunk of my energy these days into a little venture I'm calling Solar Nomadics. You can read a bit about...

Alan Scholz recently gave me a new KT-LCD6 display console for my ebike. It’s a bit bigger than my old KT-LCD5 console, but it shows me ...

Five minutes after I installed a solar panel on the roof of my bike shed it began to rain. Since this was April in Oregon, the rain wa...

While ebikes have been a growing part of the bicycle business for several years, I'd always figured I didn't need one and frankly, ...

Now various folks call people like me who try to reduce their environmental impact on the earth "Tree Huggers". Most times I tak...

I have pretty much said all I have to say on the subject of bicycles so this blog is basically dormant. But there are years of posts you can...

----------- Our Bicycles Have Gone Astray (a rant for Grant) The problem, I suppose, is one of seductive speed. The simplest frame,...

Mrs. H. wakes up slowly. For too many years she’d gotten up quickly, swatting down a clock that jangled or beeped too insistently...

There is no doubt that the rise of e-bikes is changing the bicycle business, but sometimes the excitement of the new and fear of missing out...

Today Bike Friday is officially unveiling the Pakit. I've been riding a prototype of this bike for the past month. I can assure you...

While I've never been as obsessed with weight as some of  my speedier bike riding friends, I do understand why weight is important to...

Once again it's time for the #30DaysofBiking. I'm going to ride my bike every day in April. This year instead of updating my blog wi...