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hott wett summer so far
not much of a story telling session here, as I realize I have not been keeping up with my medias and such. suppose that is summer though! even though there’s 15 hours of daylight, there just isn’t time for typing/scrolling/video editing etc. I have a thing about being outside, and if the sun is out,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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sedona spring break
my first visit to the southwest was a trip to Sedona in 1997. red rocks, dangling chilly ristras, and Kokopelli tchotchkes — a whole new world. I was 17 and had only seen New England — only ridden the stodgy soggy landscapes of my home region, bounding and bouncing my way at maximum low speeds…
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2023 Nutmeg Country Spring Fling info and reg
Hi Everyone here in the northeast. its spring (it already sprung; 87 here this Friday), but we are still treating it like its a new kinda thing here on the New England riviera. For the third year we are throwing a small bike celebration (much smaller than the fall nutmeg nor’easter) to bring in the…
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110 miles 11,000 ft
the first time I had an extended stay in Tucson was back in January of 2016. I’d met a fellow named Nate via DM’s — the manager of a now bygone bike shop. He showed me nearly everything that made me fall in love with the city of Tucson and the surrounding area — a…
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