Last August Amanda Socci, my friend and creative writing "drill sergeant" had profiled me and posed 9 questions to me for each of my five blogs (3 of which are retired), as part of her 10 month "I know I Can" training series for Nina Amir's Write Nonfiction Now and Write Nonfiction in November efforts.
I am now answering those questions at last (Series introduction).
The Cycling Dude (2003 - 2010)
(1) It is no easy feat finding your blog, Cycling Dude, unless people know the URL before searching for it. How come you don’t promote this blog? It has ended, but is still available.
That blog was, quite possibly, one of the very first cycling blogs on the internet and something I am extremely proud of all that came from writing it, but it never had more than a tiny (puny might be a better word) audience.
I once described it this way:
“Do You Bicycle? Dedicated to the proposition that bike riding is good for you & fun; Commentary, links, news, opinion, reviews, stories, travelogue, & occasional heads up about events. Kiril Kundurazieff spreads the word & the word is BICYCLE!”
A lack of know-how, plus my determination to develop my cat blogging, kept me from promoting it.

(2) You make fascinating observations about bicycles and bicycle-related news from all over the world. What is different between this blog and your other blogs is a lack of photos. Not nearly as many photos on this blog as your other blogs. How come?
It took a while for the notion to occur to me, I suppose, plus I didn’t have the walking stick and mini-tripods (one added to my handlebar and one carried in a bag) that I later purchased.
I actually began taking photos on bike rides and other trips, back in the 90’s (getting people to take shots if I wanted to be in one), when I began to do more than ride my bike to and from work 3 to 10 miles.
(3) What inspired you to blog about your bicycle adventures in the first place? Why did you stop?
I took up bike commuting in the late 80’s and longer distance bike rides in the 90’s, bringing a camera along on some of those early adventures, believe it or not. I even still have photos from those times.
My interest in cycling issues began with brief memberships in a cycling club (Los Angeles Wheelmen) and a Los Angeles activist group (Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition) that was born in 1998, plus a bad experience on a Critical Mass bike ride that led me to disavow the group and begin to educate myself about it once I began blogging.
This last led to a 2 year series of posts on this blog that made me friends among cyclists, and pissed off the Green Party and the founder of the CM movement. I even shared the correspondence with my readers.
All this involvement with groups, begun after I’d got online in 1998, and very different from the person I had once been, led me to begin a blog about cycling in 2003, discovering only one other such blog, begun almost the same time as mine, in Great Britain.
As I wrote in my last post on the blog: I ended it, in 2010, “because others, with bigger audiences, more knowledge, connections, time, and resources, than I (Including some who got their start by being inspired by my early work) serve that need very ably, however I will continue writing about, and share photos of, my bicycling adventures on my other blogs.”
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