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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I think I may have figured something out last week. Call it an epiphany. I dunno. Maybe call it what it is instead. Check it out. I’ve finally decided to listen to ALL the people that have said the same thing to me over the last few years: “you ride too much. you need to […]
Good grief. Lately it seems like my life has been in overdrive. Or, more appropriately, like I’ve been driven over. I thought maybe I could kick off a good week of riding Tuesday by meeting up with my good buddies, Jacob and Shawn for a reverse Conde Creek loop right after work. Of course work didn’t […]
Saturday, April 16 was the first edition of the Spring Fling, a gravel ride that took place in the Little Applegate valley and explored the slopes of Anderson Butte. Roughly 25 riders showed up for a great day in the sun. Here are some pictures from the less-ambitious but still challenging Short Course, a.k.a. the “Travolta.” Stay tuned […]
Last week was about homecomings and the first one involved my return to the Cycle Analysis team. After a little over a year of riding for another shop, I realized I was still spending most of my group riding time with my old teammates. I missed those guys and Jana was gracious enough to welcome me back. […]