Rode my bike to work today – a paltry 12k – in honour of my man Mr. @toniklund who yesterday started his second ITI Ride of 1,000 MILES across Alaska. Go get em Toni, teet suomesta ylpeän! 🇫🇮
Finally, after many years of winter riding, sprung for some Revelate Designs Expedition Pogies. Waited to long. Totally worth it.
We didn’t need anything in town but it was like 8°C so I went anyway. And took the long way.
Sunday night. Decide to ride to work the next day. Check the weather. -8ºC. Steel your resolve. Sit on the couch staring into space for half an hour trying to decide which bike to ride. The regular commuter? The trail is snow-covered and that means longer in the dark on country roads with commuters who…
It started with tattoo research, really. I was thinking about getting a tattoo of the Chinese characters (because those aren’t cliché at all, right?) for the Buddhist* Precept of either ‘Right Action’ or ‘Right Effort’ – so I was reading up on the difference between the two. The word action just sounded better than effort…
I’ve launched a new project. Full details are on the actual website [Now defunct. -Ed.], but in short: I think more people should be riding bikes. In my many years of riding bikes one thing I’ve learned is the best way to get more people to ride bikes is to – wait for it – ride…