A Group of Uncommonly Fabulous Chicago Women Who Ride & Do Brunch
Thanks to Dottie of the wonderful bike blog LetsGoRideABike a group of Chicago women who ride bikes as well as blog about bikes, take photos of bikes, design bike accessories, run bike-related...
View ArticleIn Which My Omafiets Proves To Be Much Tougher Than Me
Last week you may have heard that Chicago was hit with a nasty rain and hailstorm right during the evening rush hour. It was not the most fun I’ve had riding my bike home through the city. I ventured...
View ArticleYou Can Ring My (Dutch Bike) Bell
It was a crisp, breezy, fall day on Friday – a great afternoon to be out riding in the city. I was riding my bike north through the Lakeview neighborhood, when I approached a UPS truck parked in my...
View ArticleSaturday’s Snowy Errands No Problem for Oma
Sorry for the drop-off in posts at the end of the week, but we were experiencing some technical difficulties here at the house of Ding which left me without access to my laptop or any photo drives or...
View ArticleNo Bikes Were Injured In Order to Get These Photos
Forging Steel at Finkl & Sons in Chicago One of the the great things about riding a bike is that you interact with your surroundings more than in a car, and you tend to ‘see’ your surroundings...
View ArticleSomething New – Bike Blogs From Around the U.S.
While I mostly enjoy winter and the seasons and the crazy weather that is Chicago, right now I’m tired of gray snow, gray skies and blogging about my umpteenth ride in the snow.  So instead, I...
View ArticleFaux Spring in Chicago & Oma Wants to Hang Out At A Cafe
We had a brief burst of warmer weather blow through Chicago this past week, and on Friday it was in the mid 40s (F) in Chicago but fairly windy – gusting up to 30mph. That didn’t stop cafes from...
View ArticleBiking to Garfield Park Conservatory in Search of Spring Flowers
Dale Chilhuly Persian Lilies in the Aroid Room Last weekend Mr. Ding and I had a Sunday afternoon date/bike-ride to the Garfield Park Conservatory. The Conservatory is sort of one of those ‘hidden...
View ArticleBiking To the Store With A Non-Dutch Bike
I was going to title this “Mr. Ding Goes to The Store” but I decided against it. I’ve posted a few pictures of Oma in all her gear and beer-toting glory, but I’m not the only one who does the...
View ArticleDo You Have to Be A Rebellious/Tough/Insane Cyclist to Ride in the City?
I’m basically linking to another blog today because the comments to a recent post in the blog Let’s Go Ride A Bike about a guest post in another bike blog are so worth reading. About a week ago a...
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