"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Sep 9th, 2008
The past couple of weeks have been getting chillier; fall is setting in awfully early this year. I get up a little before 6:00 on most mornings to take the dog for an early walk so that she’ll let me make breakfast in peace. Without that walk, she’d be ramming a chew-toy against my shins […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Photo entries, Redline Monocog 29er, Travel on Jul 2nd, 2008
On Sunday, Joel and I went out to Emporia to have another go at the Dirty Kanza course. As I’d helped mark the second half of the ride (the part I didn’t get to ride during the race) I was really excited to get to see it from the saddle. We were supposed to meet […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er on Jun 3rd, 2008
So…once again my lousy sense of direction bites me in the butt! I got in a fine ride and had a pretty darn good time, but man, I’m bummed that I only did 130 miles and that I was disqualified/DNF-ed. More on that in a bit. I’d never been out in the Flint Hills before. […]
Posted in Fashion, Other Bike Stuff, Redline Monocog 29er, Schwinn World Sport Singlespeed, Trek 800, Yellow Bianchi on Mar 14th, 2008
Ah, spring cleaning. For me it means so many things. Yesterday afternoon when I got home from work, I hauled a couple of feeeeelthy bikes out onto the lawn, sprayed ’em down with Simple Green, let that soak into the winter guck for a while, and hosed them down. I worked over some of the […]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Jan 1st, 2008
Happy New Year! There’s an old superstition that whatever you do on New Year’s Day sets the tone for what the upcoming year will be like. If that’s the case, then I should have a great year of riding ahead of me. We went out to Smithville and it was my first time out there, […]