Daniel Wakefield Pasley has a three-inch icicle hanging from the bill of his cycling cap. Really. I wish I was kidding. Actually, I wish that it was my icicle. On my cap. Daniel is the umpteenth person that Sal and I run into while making our way across town and into Forest Park. We find [...]
Continue ReadingWorld Domination From a Hot-Pink Banana Seat: Christmas in 1985
My last column for 2008 will run in tomorrow’s Oregonian, but if you don’t get the paper you can check it out online. In it, I begin my quest for world domination, inspired by a bike-accessory I received for Christmas. (It was the motorcylce noismaker that you mounted on the handlebars… did anyone else have [...]
Continue ReadingOne Last Idea: Give the Gift of Wrenching
Remember when you were 9 and you just ran outside, jumped on your sweet BMX with mag wheels, and started riding? No fussing or clacking duck-shoes or beeping computers. And when you were done, you just parked the little beauty somewhere and ran inside to eat macaroni and cheese. Rinse and repeat. Unfortunately, riding big-kid [...]
Continue Reading“We’re Not Animali”: Written in Blood on the Wall of My Pain Cave
You know what bike hell is? It’s a perfectly heated room and a rear skewer locked into a trainer. Bikes hate trainers. I’m telling you. More than I do. Even your prissy, fancy road bikes that claim they hate to get wet – trust me, they hate trainers more. Trainers are an affront to the [...]
Continue ReadingPow Pow Power Training: Coming to a Bike Near You
On Going to the Dark Side Power training? Really? Yep, really. There are forces at battle within me. The emotional side of me loves the uncalculated, un-analyzed raw execution of sport: we are not equations and we should not be reduced to a set of numbers laid out on charts, mapped in graphs, and pored [...]
Continue ReadingBoot Camp Diary Archives: Day Three – Molly on the Mountain
I’m a bit behind posting boot camp diary entries publicly, but I’ve been keeping them tucked away for a winter day and I’m pretty sure that tonight qualifies… brrrr. Molly finished her ascent to applause and cheering. She was the last of the group to climb the long set of slippery cement stairs, and the [...]
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