• 2024 Nutmeg Country Spring Break Event Details

    2024 Nutmeg Country Spring Break Event Details

    the brooks are bumbling and rumbling here in Nutmeg Country! what better way to bring in the green season than riding the waves of water and dirt down to the picturesque Connecticut coastline. hard to believe, but this is the 4th annual Nutmeggers spring event. sometimes called the “spring fling”, but not maybe just spring… Read more

  • nutmeggers in the desert

    nutmeggers in the desert

    a bit late on this post, but what the heck, why not. as some of you know I had left the mild wildes of southern New England back in early March, and drove on out to meet up with a gaggle of Nutmeg Country Clubbers for a 9 day training camp down in Southern AZ.… Read more

  • why an all metal sub 20lb mid reach road bike is relevant in 2024

    why an all metal sub 20lb mid reach road bike is relevant in 2024

    well first off, because it’s my latest obsession turned passioné. much like a good olive oil — its the flavor that makes the dish. the flavor I am talking about is the much overlooked modulating maven of a stopper, the mid reach road caliper. if you’d like a run down of the options of said… Read more

  • Westward

    Westward

    well the time has come, or the time came … the ol’ but short nutmeg needleworks chapter of our lives is over. we got raked over the coals there at the end of it, and we nearly lost ourselves in it all, but as of last friday, we are officially through the smolders. Arya and… Read more

  • a lot going on right now

    a lot going on right now

    the above photo is the closest image I could find taken in the past month of how life has felt for the most part. I wanted to share this past month’s challenges in video story form on YouTube, but my video making has been a bit distracted by the above image relating to how life feels… Read more

  • walking tour NYC

    walking tour NYC

    not bike content, but this is my blog, not yours!😉 so to celebrate another year of making bags and bikes, Arya and I planned an end of the year city visit, if only to do something different than paddling our canoe across the CT river for “city life” in the humble “Paris of Nutmeg Country”,… Read more