Whew! Clearly, nicer weather and staying close to home over a holiday weekend means I get to ride more. The biggest problem with that is I barely have enough time to get a blog entry done. Since it’s already Tuesday afternoon while I’m writing this and I have a week + to talk about, I’m […]
Month: May 2016
Going Off The Rails Of The Swasey Train
Things started off pretty good last week. Choosing a road ride over a mtb race at nearly the last minute on Tuesday, I found myself in a group of 9 riders when I had thought there would only be 4 of us! Awesome! While I had planned on just Jacob, Destry, Jeff, and I, it was […]
Group It Up
Shnikes! Every Sunday, in preparation for my bloggage, I look back through all the photos I’ve taken from the previous week. It wasn’t until I was in the middle of the process this week that I realized all four rides I had done were group rides. Having spent most of 2015 training for, or participating […]
Touring the Unknown Coast
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Alexander von Humboldt Bordered by rugged coastline and isolated from the rest of civilization by miles of narrow highways that twist along canyon walls like […]
Just Another Day
STXC!!! Huh? What’s that? For those that don’t know, it stands for Short Track Cross Country and for the first time in several years, we have a local series again. The STXC series put on 3 or 4 years ago was my first attempt at racing a bike. I had just started riding and my […]
We Love the Masi CXR Comp
Check out the new Masi CXR Comp disc brake cyclocross bike. This cyclocross/gravel bike sports a Shimano 105 drivetrain, Stans No Tubes rims, TRP Spyre brakes, Clement MXP tires, a Ritchey cockpit and a carbon fork, all mounted on Masi’s new Dirt Tuned Alloy frame. The paint schemes pop in Masi’s 2016 line and this […]