“Wait up!” I think as I watch 88-year-old Larry Kempffer’s backside get further away, the blinking red light of his bicycle receding as he pedals on ahead. Pellets of ice are hitting me as a passing car honks. But I’m already as close to the curb as possible. Why, I wonder, am I on a borrowed one-speed bike on Bank Street in sub-zero February? Read More
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Deachman: Trying to keep up with an 88-year-old winter cyclist
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