Photo Credit: Dylan VanWeelden I have been connected to the Sicilian for more than 11 years. United in life and love and adventure and navigation and challenge. I have watched him rolled out of surgery with his entire ear cut away and then taped back onto the side of his head. I have [...]

Photo Credit: The Amazing Jose Sandoval Part One: This is How We Die Part Two: Paint My Coffin Pink Part Three: Pour My Ashes in Slate Olson’s Coffee Famous last words. Remember them well: “All we have to do is get up Dixie Mountain and we’ll be ok.” All we have to do is get up Dixie Mountain. It’s true. But [...]

Missed Part One? Catch up and read This is How We Die. Photo Credit to the amazing Jose Sandoval * Eight miles on Highway 30 lead us to the last bits of civilization before the start of Otto Miller. We pass a bike shop, load up on a hearty supply of spare tubes, and cruise into the Texaco [...]

I have been connected to the Sicilian for more than 11 years. United in life and love and adventure and navigation and challenge. I have watched him rolled out of surgery with his entire ear cut away and then taped back onto the side of his head. I have slept with him under Jesus’ serene [...]

Halfway to Detroit Here’s how it happens. I wake up in the morning and put on a fairly almost-brand-new pair of Sidis. I lash a temporary home to the back of a heavy steel bike with a long wheel base. I pedal out of Portland. Along the way, I learn how to start the heavy bike from a [...]

Photo info: Shot the lede photo last weekend at the Cascade Classic Stage Race in Bend, Oregon. This little cutie girl was happy to be wearing Mara Abbott’s QOM jersey. Abbott let her borrow the jersey to wear in her kiddie competition! Women and Bikes: Bring It Oh man, if there’s one thing I love it’s seeing [...]