Or just consider it a tune-up race for the big show in Seattle.  Whatever you do, do not miss Pain on the Peak on September 13th! My team, Portland Velo, has teamed up with Sunset Cycles to host a brand spankin’ new ‘cross race this year and it’s gonna be a doozie.  Think Bald Peak – [...]

Summer morning.  Chilly track. "Natalie!  My hands are numb!" "Mine too!" Mittens in August? Heading into the third turn of the second 800 meter interval the sun powers over the top of the building to our east.  Blinding, white, glowing. We’re overexposed and unbalanced.  Washed in a light that hints of winter.  Low sun like that, you can’t trust it. There [...]

Birthdays. Cakes and keg ordered. I have an entire army of boys working on my behalf to throw me a party worthy of the gaggle of fantastic friends who are going to turn up.  I’m stunned and stopped and startled by the sheer amount of effort involved. I knew the command was loaded when I announced "Let’s [...]

It’s August 21st.  I’ll be 31 in two days. In general, I feel like about seventy million bucks. But this month has been hard for me. It’s "Christmas season" for my biggest client (read: long hours making marketing for people), it’s a big month for event for photography (read: long weekends working), and I just wrote something [...]

I love this crazy town. Sherry just emailed me a link to Jonathan’s blog, Bikeportland.org – it looks like the building in Waterfront Park, just north of the Hawthorne Bridge, will be turned into "Bike Republic"  which is described as a "full service bike commuter facility". Hot! But what really got me going was the mention of a [...]

This is just about one of the geekiest things to hit the Bike Nerd Kingdom in a long time – and I’m impressed. About 6 weeks ago, I crossed a line that I swore I’d never go near.  I started geeking out on gear inches.  Two reasons: I was in the throes of spec-ing out my [...]