Working in the cycling industry gives me a lot of access to test new product and while I’m as smitten with shiny stuff as the next gear-junkie, I’m most impressed by the pieces that just refuse to die. Unfortunately for Sal, who would very much love to have a reason to buy a new, sparkly [...]
Continue Reading14 Years for Marriage Equality
Everyone is talking about marriage equality. Again. I remember the last time this happened in a significant way for me. The Knight Initiative, Prop 22 in 2000. In California. Again. I was Co-President of Seattle University’s Triangle Club at that time. I remember lobbying so hard and sending so many emails and having so many [...]
Continue ReadingPhotoGlimmer: Camp N Ride
Mile 19. You pointed to the left and said, “Look at that road.” It was the straight kind that goes into forever and then keeps going a little further. Farm road. Quiet. Looked suspiciously like it might turn into gravel. (It did.) We turned off the highway and pedaled out toward the horizon. We did [...]
Continue ReadingBacklit Chaos: Tumalo Mountain
Twenty-six degrees and sun rising in bright white claws that get longer as they come at us over the peak of the mountain. You forgot your goggles and so did I. You forgot your windproof outer layer and so did I. You forgot to bring the miniature thermos of tea and so did I. At [...]
Continue ReadingLast Call for InGamba Chianti Women’s Trip
When I dream of 2012, I dream of Chianti. Never mind that long ride around France – I left my heart in the sweeping vineyards and charming restaurants and tiny streets of Tuscany. I count myself endlessly lucky to be able to go back and take a few food-bike-and-wine loving ladies with me. Lecchi will [...]
Continue ReadingThis is Worth Your Time: Support the Afghan Women’s Cycling Team
Yes, you read that headline right. A women’s national cycling team is beginning to take shape in Afghanistan. We talk a lot about inviting more women to join the cycling party. About empowering women to pedal and explore and race and just go for it. In so many ways this project in Afghanistan symbolizes, in [...]
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