musings

Chasing Rickshaws in New York

Change For Good, musings _ December 7th, 2010

Part of being Rickshaw is in the daily journey. As you may know the inspiration for our brand is a book titled Chasing Rickshaws and this weekend our founder Mark Dwight did just that. After hunting for an authentic Rickshaw for a few months we finally tracked one down in upstate New York and we [...]

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Sunday Drive

musings, Scene _ January 26th, 2009

Today I went for a longer test drive on my new Rivendell touring bike, in preparation for my 500-mile trek to Long Beach to attend the TED Conference. It was a glorious morning here in San Francisco – clean streets, clear air and a brisk ocean breeze. I headed out to the Golden Gate Bridge [...]

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Got my new Rivendell bicycle!

musings _ January 23rd, 2009

On Thursday (now yesterday) I took BART to Walnut Creek to get my new Rivendell touring bicycle, which I will be riding 500 miles from SF to Long Beach to attend the TED conference (and back again). More about my ride later. TED runs February 4-7, and Rickshaw is once again the TEDbag sponsor, with [...]

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What a day!

musings _ January 21st, 2009

Making good on one of my New Year’s resolutions — to start using the various web resources I’ve been diligently avoiding  – I’m now drowning in a deluge of tweets, wall postings, comments and emails from my head-first foray into social networking. To think, we didn’t even have PCs when I was in college. This is [...]

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It’s a brand new day!

musings _ January 21st, 2009

Good morning! Today, those two words ring differently in my ears — because I sincerely believe that this morning is different — in a very good way. I believe yesterday was an inflection point in the history of America. Not because the problems we face this morning are any less than those we faced yesterday [...]

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