Category: Bikes

The weather turned nice here a few weekends back and I wanted to get out for at least one ride but instead was stuck inside painting my basement – my sister’s moved in – and of course being a woman, the current wall color just wouldn’t do. I did manage to get out this last…

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Behind my house there is a hill. A large one – or large in my mind. Every day I ride the bike on the way home I encounter this hill, there’s no way around it. In the mornings it’s downhill, which is a blessing and a curse. It means that I can coast downhill while…

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Just now on the rainy bike commute in, a woman passing in a car yelled at me, “Way to go biker!” 1 down. The ‘rest of you’ to go.

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Here’s a quote I just found in a forum that I particularly dug. “Personal demons are notoriously bad bicyclists, and you will drop them in the first mile.” ~ Justin Crawford I don’t know who Justin Crawford is but…he’s right.

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When you thread 2 pieces of rubber 2.3″ wide through an opening between two rocks that’s 2.4″ wide going downhill at about 20mph on wet ground without even really thinking about it – then when you realize what you’ve done and you start laughing out loud with no one around… Then you’ll get it. It’s…

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Got out for a ride today and the bike was unhappy. I think it knows that I’m building another one to – temporarily at least – take it’s place. It knows this, and today it aligned with the drivetrain to spite me. Here I sit. Spited. Every ride can’t be the perfect one I guess.…

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