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some bikes with our tires at MADE show
wow, what a show — yet again. we were really impressed with year one 2023, and this iteration did not disappoint. a lot of the year one wrinkles were ironed out, most notably the extra media day, and the hott custom bike wave just washed over us like a fevered wave of admiration and desire.…
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Ron’s Red 01
if John Tomac, Ned Overend, Charlie Cunningham, and Wes Willits all raced/worked for Yeti as Sammy Hagar fans, I think they’d have been on this bike in 1992. I have touched on 1992 being THE year a few times in my musings, but I don’t think I’d put together a bike that really encapsulates it.…
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Amanda’s Alumalith
before you say “hey ronnie I thought you were all out of those things and those forks!”, well this one has been reserved for a while for a special customer. the rollerskating @skatergates of Erie PA. this one was in the works for a while — tried to have it ready for pick up at…
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Alps ATB
so after my faster friends left the Tirano area, and the big roadie climbs were under the bib straps, I got to map out my own ride and take a jab at Italian/Swiss ATB life. I could not help but notice that all of the road climbs we did also connected to other peaks and…
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non bike photos italy
there were a lot of other things to take photos of — although I know this is a bikes blog and all, I do have fun just slowly walking or riding around taking photos of other things too. this trip I only brought 1 camera — my Ricoh GRiiix with an effective 40mm 2.8 fixed…
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Dolomites pt.2 (mogast)
MOGAST: “MOrtirolo” “GAvia” “STelvio” /// 106 miles and nearly 16,000 ft in elevation gained. a monster of a roadie day, and a small event put on by a lovely guy from Tirano named Bruno. all three of the most infamous climbs of the Giro in one day. iyeeee! many of you have seen the photos…
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where the caps are made
on a rest day from riding, patz and I borrowed a car and took a 3 hr drive to the small factory that make our caps in a rural farm town, 1.5 hrs from Milan. living most of my adult life beneath the stubby shade of one of these things; from this very factory —…
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Dolomites pt 1
currently on a trip we’d kinda planned for in 2020, but things happened and all, so here we are 4 years later picking up where we left off in some ways, and not in others. after attempting the Swiss Alpine bike route in 2017, Tenzin (formerly Arya) and I really wanted to get back and…
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155 miles on a long day
for the 2nd year in a row now, the nutmeg country, country club “A” group hath embarked on a smattering of ambitious rides around the 1st of June — long days, low humidity, and before the bugs. the perfect time of year to really stretch the legs out and shake off the cobwebs of the…
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New Haven apizza century
I am headed to the Dolamites mid June to ride a few of the road climbs that I’d dreamt of summiting in my younger years –shorn chest glistening in the rarified mountain air — jersey unzipped and wide open, flapping in the backdraft of my science enhanced climbing speed — crowd roaring — ROOOOONIE! can…
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