infinitely sustainable pace

Day #2 of a cold, driving rain. Utter misery outside. With Singlespeed-apalooza 4 weeks away and PMBAR the week after that, I can’t afford to laze about waiting for suitable riding conditions. Especially since PMBAR is a team event. Can’t let down the team! So, trainer or bust. I popped over to Redbox and picked [...]

In exciting 15 minutes of not-so-much-fame news, Thom Parsons wrote an article on SSUSA for the latest issue of Dirt Rag, he did quite a nice job describing the characters of the scene and the oddness of the event. I’m quite excited because my name is in print. You see, since I never really win [...]

Rolled in late last night from a visit to the motherland, the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. A weekend of family meals, hanging out with grandma, riding awesome singletrack and hanging out drinking good beer listening to tales of epics over the past year. I really think I’m lucky to have this extended family and enjoy these [...]

And just in time too. George has gone into all the exciting details over on the Bike29 blog, and I’m not going to rehash it here. Go there and read it if you want to geek out over bike details. However, I will reiterate that were I to elect for a nice rigid crabon fork, [...]

We were sitting around the Alchemist on Sunday afternoon, having some recovery drinks after a weekend of good outside rides. The boys were all trying to outdo each other with tales of how little time they spent on the trainer this winter. Um, not me. I spent a fair amount of time on the trainer [...]

it’s been one of those classic VT spring weekends, only it’s still really early for this this sort of nonsense. Friday and Saturday capped off a week of gorgeous days. While I had to spend my Friday afternoon entertaining 6 year old boys, Saturday was payback with basically unlimited time to ride. As I rolled [...]

New wheels. Done. Aren’t they awesome looking? All shiny and new. Can’t wait to get them dirty. All my One9 needs is a slow afternoon at the shop and I get it back. Not that I want the shop to be slow, but I do want to shake this thing out before I head down [...]

Another fabulous, decidedly un-Marchlike day here in VT. I rolled up to the Trout Club again. In shorts! And my summer shoes. I had forgotten my bottle*, so I kept going past the dam to the spring that I remembered. And I drank straight from the pipe. And it was the best water I’ve ever [...]

It’s 57 degrees and bluebird outside, but i just frittered away my riding time at this place: ever since the Great Compost Shoveling Disaster of 2008 I find myself fighting a few back issues. Dr. Keith makes it better. He’s also a godsend for the arm issues that resulted from the Great Rigid Fork Weekend [...]

The sap is running. Welcome to maple syrup season  in Vermont. Lotsa riding this weekend, George’s Aunt took K overnight which meant a nice open schedule. Saturday I went out and climbed some local hills. That’s where I saw these sap buckets. This is the old fashioned way to collect the sap and generally smaller [...]