Tucson Velo

Once again the Tucson Velo family is heading to Southern California for a much needed vacation. Oceanside is the place where my passion for riding a bike was rekindled. This year we won’t be taking bikes, but we plan on utilize public transportation to get around as much as possible. I’m hoping to rent a [...]

This weekend was a huge weekend for riding bikes in the Tucson Velo family. As you can see from the video, my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter is riding her own pedal bike. She still has a hard time with the starting and stopping, but she’s nailing everything  in between. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I [...]

Depending on where you look, we may have hit the century mark yesterday and not in miles, but degrees fahrenheit. Whether it did or didn’t isn’t all that important. We know the sauna is upon us and we’ll we “enjoying” it until September. Just because it’s getting hot, doesn’t mean you have to stop riding, [...]

We are smack dab in the middle of National Bike Month and this week is Bike to Work Week. It’s also the prime time for releasing lists of the top bike cities. On Monday, The League of American Bicyclists released their updated list of bike friendly communities. There were no changes for any Arizona cities. [...]

I am fairly confident my bike was going to be stolen last night if I hadn’t moved it. I was heading to the University of Arizona to take a final exam in my MBA program. I was a few minutes early and decided to park my bike on the south side of  McClelland Hall next [...]

Yesterday was a big day for the TucsonVelo family. Luci took her first ride on our trail-a-bike, which isn’t actually a bike because I’ve been banned from buying anymore bikes. Instead it’s a bicycle accessory. At least that is my story and I am sticking with it. Luci’s legs are a little too short for [...]

Luci and I were nearly doored last week and it was shocking how quickly it all happened. We were heading east on University Boulevard just before Park Avenue when a young man opened the door of hus Mustang. I believe I was actually riding far enough to the left to of the car that there [...]

Have you logged your trips for Tucson’s Bike Fest yet? Part of this year’s month-long celebration of all things bicycling is the two-mile challenge. Data has shown that at least 40 percent of trips are two miles or less and Bike Fest organizers are encouraging people to try to make more of those two-mile trips [...]

Bikes aren’t just for people. Check out these two examples of using bikes to transport a few out of the ordinary cargo items.   We rant into this gentleman putting his bass on to his bike trailer after a gig on University Boulevard last week. She said he was looking at getting a custom cargo [...]

On Friday, Irene and I were able to sneak out of the house for a bike date. The original plan was to get sushi and then head to the movies. We were time crunched and couldn’t make the start of the movies we wanted to see. We looked for something to do, but couldn’t find [...]

This week has been a little crazy for the McKisson household and our bicycling transportation routine has been suffered. Normally, Luci and I load into the CETMA each morning for our trip to her school and my work. It’s about 10 miles roundtrip each day. I’ve been off of work this week and we’re getting [...]

I prefer to shop locally whenever I can and when I’m looking for bike parts, I head to one of my sponsors to get them. Yesterday I was hunting for a pair of Ergon grips for my new mountain bike. I stopped by two of my sponsors looking for the grips and neither of them [...]