This would cost $15 from a bike company. I love D.I.Y. solutions to cycling problems. Clever work-arounds using parts not manufactured for a particular use, tools made with hardware store bits, etc. I got the chance to try my hand at a new D.I.Y. solution this weekend while building up Becky’s new cross bike. Long [...]
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Riding to the Top of the World
The email to Dylan and Erik began “file this under ideas I may regret suggesting.” I was, after all, proposing a 130 mile ride from Port Townsend to the top of Hurricane Ridge and back that would edge frighteningly close to 8,800 feet of climbing. Oh, and there’d be the 17 .5 mile, 5,200 ft [...]
Help Fight ALS, Win Awesome Prizes from Portland Design Works and Nuun!
Becky and I are doing ALS Double Day fundraiser ride again this year. The two-day ride in Washington’s Skagit valley raises money for the Evergreen Chapter of the ALS association. In order to help motivate people to donate, I’ve put together a little fundraiser raffle. For every $5 you donate to my fundraiser page, you [...]
My Bell Got Rung. Hard.
You ever have that dream that you were out riding your bike with your friends, then all of a sudden you’re whisked away to the hospital where you’re helped by shadowy figures you can hear, but can’t really see? I was really sure I was having that dream last Thursday evening. Then the hospital social [...]
Secret Island Off-Road Redux
A few weeks ago (or more like a month, probably), I did a second trip to the Secret Island Off Road Cyclocross trails with some of the teammates. My camera settings were right, so the pictures didn’t come out all blue. But, looking back I was too busy riding and having fun to remember to [...]
Semi-Secret Island Cyclocross
I didn’t notice that the camera settings were screwy until after the ride, so everything’s got a bit of a blue tint. My bad. It started with a little aside at a team get together. Seth mentioned that he’d heard from one of the mechanics at 2nd Ascent that there were some excellent, cross-bike worthy [...]
Saturday
Yesterday the sun was shining bright with temperatures getting up into the mid to high-60s. It was a gorgeous and much need reprieve from the steady low-40s and rain that we’ve had since about October. Winter in Seattle is as bad as you’ve heard. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Erik and I took full [...]
Leaving the Good Life to Hit the Road
I wrote this earlier today for The Bicycle Story. I like it so I’m reposting it here. Gregg Bleakney crossing into Argentina from Chile. Photo by Gregg Bleakney. The latest episode of Patagonia’s Dirtbag Diaries podcast is about a young man who left a high paying, white collar career to ride his bike from Alaska [...]
Wanderlusting
I have learned something important about myself over the past few years: I am drawn to adventure stories like a moth to flame. I realize this doesn’t really set me apart from the general population all that much. People love the idea of the freedom and experience afforded by an incredible adventure that totally bucks [...]
The Best Interaction With a Mercedes I Might Ever Have
Luxury German automobile ownership and dickishness seem to go hand in hand. Some of the most egregious driving I’ve witnessed—buzzing cyclists, cutting off buses, swerving around the highway at high speeds—was done by people in Audis, Mercedes, and BMWs (with BMWs typically being the god damned worst). But last night, I had an interaction with [...]
