Piece of Cake RR Report at iWend
Last year’s piece of cake was stale. No – not just stale – rotten. It sucked hard core. This year? Well, this year was a little better. The full report is up over at The Cycling Diaries on iWend. Thanks for making the jump and supporting my relationship with this kick-ass adventure magazine!
Continue ReadingOmer Kem in the O: Hometown Hero!
Three things are certain about Omer Kem: he’s intense, he’s driven, and he makes a good sushi date. (Except when he passes on the sake in the name of his pro-bike-racer “I only eat sticks and twigs” physique). To his credit, the sake-shunning is doing its job and the kid is light. And fast. He’s [...]
Continue ReadingHave a Rest! Unintended Super-Relaxing
The bike is both friend and enemy right now. The act of riding feels emotionally healing and psychologically restorative, but my rides leave me physically worked over, napping for hours afterward, shivering from chills. And I’m not just talking about hard rides. The easy rides, too. The no-effort 1.5 hour spin. Demolished. Ker-plow! I took [...]
Continue ReadingI Used to Be a Pipsqueak (A Guest Post)
My mother and father have been reading my blog intently since I began shoving it down their throats roughly a year ago. The idea of going back to a site again and again for new content is new to them – but they’re catching on. My mother is a newspaper columnist. Or was. Still is, [...]
Continue ReadingSweetpea Bicycles: Part One and Two
My latest column in the Oregonian is about Natalie Ramsland – kick-ass woman building ass-kicking bikes for women. If you’ve been around the Everyday Athlete for any amount of time, you probably already know that I’m a fan of Sweetpea (not to mention Natalie). Portland is filled with great framebuilders and they’ve all got their [...]
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