• Jay’s Zeus

    Jay’s Zeus

    a few months ago Jay showed up on a Saturday beach ride on this Zeus he says he’s had since grade school. it had surprisingly large clearances, so he had been running the 33 jack brown tires with the puncture protection for the city riding he used to use it for in a past life. Read more

  • more adv. road 10k in 100 low hills

    more adv. road 10k in 100 low hills

    the last post was pretty road bike centric — albeit “adv. road” which constitutes a ride with at least 80 percent pavement. there, I just made up a category. a pillar of this category is the concept of underbiking, although you can see my cousin Sean in the photo above was overbiking for this sort Read more

  • adventure road ohhkayy

    adventure road ohhkayy

    when I last visited road bikes in 2009, it was all very one dimensional — 23c tires pumped to the max had me only riding on the road, road. even a slight deviation on a different surface could result in disaster, or the fear of such disaster, and no one likes having to walk their Read more

  • Arya and the tour divide

    Arya and the tour divide

    just dropped Arya off at the airport with her new bike (that has not been pedaled more than to adjust the saddle height) so that she can ride it 3000 miles from Canada to Mexico on her second attempt at completing the GDMR. I am so proud of her, I love these ideas she gets. Read more

  • rewind between home from AZ and going to Japan

    rewind between home from AZ and going to Japan

    to rewind a little bit from the last entry, this blog is a photo smearing of rides and hangs in the woods between getting home from out west in early April, to right before I left for Japan. of course Japan needs its own blog post, and I have so many photos to go through Read more

  • spring fling 2023 story

    spring fling 2023 story

    a little out of chronological order with this post — a lot happened between Sedona and now — a whole month and a half of riding and hundreds of shutter clicks. addicted to that shutter click. addicted to bikes! and sun. and chocolate. it all began with a few folks who have been coming out Read more