Red-headed BFFs + Canine Mania Oakland and old friends. A sushi reunion. My old friend Wendi is a red-head with a vengeance and wears big jewelry that suits her. In sorta shiny copper colored cowboy boots she leans over and says, “I love you, little!” Sal and I sleep in her bed because she is too [...]

There were a lot of great cycling moments in Tucson. Meeting El Grupo, riding road bikes through foot deep washes (maybe we won’t try that one again), racing like matchbox cars along the swooping, smooth road of Saguaro East, ripping into our stash of Coke ManCans at Windy Point en route to the summit of Lemmon. But [...]

Let’s wander together. I’m going to New Zealand in October. Come hell or high water. Really. After “racing” in the Cyclocross Single Speed World Champsionships last year and then reading about the madcap shenanigans at the 2010 mountain bike Single Speed World Championships, I realized that I must – at some point – attend one of these [...]

John says: What’s your favorite bike and favorite type of riding? Ouch! Favorite bike! That’s a tough one. To be honest, my favorite bike is a figment of my memory. It was a vintage Pogliaghi that Sal gave to me to use when I met him. A “friend” of ours took it and never returned it. It’s a [...]

Ouch. My little writing mind is fo-frazzleed from too much jobby-job word making. I need a distraction. Let’s chat. Ask me anything. No, really. Anything. I’ll answer whatever I can and whatever won’t get me arrested. In the meantime, the editorial calendar is looking good. Stay tuned for: Thoughts on the state of women in cycling from a female bike [...]

I don’t know how to do this, so I’m just going to come out and say it: one of my very good friends was diagnosed with breast cancer yesterday afternoon. I came home from a dinner with Sal and checked my email and there it was in my inbox. Electronic sucker punch take down. Bam. Gut blow. This [...]