Metric Century Plan
All this #30daysofbiking foolishness has me feeling like a bad-ass, and I’m starting to think about the metric century I promised myself I’d train for this year. So, I came up with a training plan. All...
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Improvement
About 4 years ago, I tried (and failed) to ride the hilly-ass road from my house to the Appalachian Trail. Yesterday, I tried again. I made it the whole way, and never even walked any of the hills. I...
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Trail-a-bike Adventures
I scored a Trail-a-bike for next-to-nothing at a yard sale a few weeks ago. I don’t have any kids, but now I at least have an excuse to have some. In the mean while, I have a niece and a couple of...
View Article500 Miles in July?
So, some jerk on Google+ challenged everyone to ride 500 miles during the month of July. 500 miles is about twice as many as I’ve ever done in a single month, so it’s probably a fair bet that I won’t...
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Nevermind
For a variety of reasons/excuses – some valid, some less so – I will not be getting anything close to 500 miles this month. As of right now, I stand at zero for the month. Don’t know where my...
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Riding some, blogging less
I’ve been a little busy lately, and the blog has fallen silent. I’m truly sorry you all have to suffer through your days without benefit of my world-famous insight and wit. I’m sure it must be a...
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Fall s24o
Sloth and I did our annual fall s24o this past weekend. I was not feeling up to large amounts of miles or hills, so we decided to rail trail it. Stony Creek, to be specific. Sloth was feeling...
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2012 in review, New Year Resolutions, etc.
So, I made some new year’s resolutions last year. How did I do? Resolution Outcome Lose 70 pounds Fail Ride 1000 miles Success! Ride a Metric Century Fail Weight: I am starting 2013 14.2 pounds lighter...
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Monster Trucks and Monkey Nuts
So, I thought maybe I’d run some nice fat rubber on the Karate Monkey. Monster-Truck tires. Because why not. When I had the LBS build up the monkey originally, they told me not to go bigger than 2.1″...
View ArticlePardon the Madness
I am reconfiguring the blog. Cleaning out old links, updating things, adding artificial-intelligent robot slave girls. Things like that. Things may break over the next few days. Things may get a little...
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Monkeys
These are monkeys riding a bicycle. More importantly, I am blogging from my phone for the first time ever. One small step for man, one giant leap for bicycling primates.
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¡Viva la Bike Blogosphere!
Last week, Google announced that they were shutting down Google Reader. Upon hearing this news, I became agitated and behaved in a somewhat undignified manner on Google Plus. After regaining my...
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Quick Ride down by the river
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A Preview of Coming Attractions
What the world needs is an Open Source, Open Data, self-hosted replacement for Stava, Dailymile, Runkeeper, etc. Using phpMyGPX as a ride logger? I downloaded phpMyGPX yesterday afternoon. I was up...
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I stopped off on today’s bike ride and took a Photosphere by the river. WP Photo Sphere (13 – 1)
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A Grand Literary Adventure
The nutters who put on the Lake Pepin 3-Speed tour like to talk about what it is to be a “Gentleman Cyclist©.” They have a sort of decalogue (a tredecalogue, actually) of such a cyclist’s attributes....
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#30daysofbiking – Day 1
Its April! That means #30daysofbiking. This means you ride your bike every single day – even if it’s just around the block. Then you spam the bejesus out of your social networks with the hashtag...
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