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If Wednesday was a good day, Thursday was a hard kick to the crotch. And yup, that hurts women too. One more day of playing office this week. A super early morning, a lot of work to get through, and a happy ending with a Dr. Steelthumbs appointment. Last chance to fix the back before the Darkhorse [...]

I’ve been worried about  my rear tire. It was a pretty significant gash, big enough that I got Stan’s in my mouth as it sprayed out after the incident. Stan’s seemed to seal the hole, but that hasn’t stopped me from fretting about whether or not I trust that tire for this weekend. When I’m [...]

I’m beat. So over the past few years with all this so-called ‘training’ that I’ve been doing, I’ve found it doesn’t make the event any easier, but it does make the aftermath a lot less painful. In this instance though, I must have gone above and beyond because I am worked. I’m tired and my back is a [...]

Hard to spell and even harder to get to, Carrabassett Valley in Maine hosted it’s first Backcountry Cycle Challenge this weekend, and I was there on the singlespeed One9. As it was the first year, the field was pretty small with 130+/- riders. Mostly boys. Though this made for a teeny-tiny expert womens field, it [...]

Remember the mixtape? The one you got from your first love? My first boyfriend gave me my first mixtape. Fugazi, Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits, etc. That tape was more precious than gold to me at that time, so much new music to get into. That same boy also taught me how to drive, how to snowboard, how [...]

Especially lunch rides where you realize that you’re more fit than you’ve ever been before in your life*, riding trails you know like the back of your hand, on your main squeeze bike with perfect gearing, on a hot and sunny day in July. Trails right out the work parking lot, good music playing in [...]

Custom steel frame with S&S Couplers from Caletti Cycles in Santa Cruz. Handbuilt wheels from Bike29 featuring Stan’s Crest rims, Industry 9 hubs, regular type spokes for durability and easy fixes while on the road. Gates Carbon Belt Drive, with the new Center Track technology. They didn’t any choice of gear available, so this is a [...]

I find it fascinating how ideas become real. Going through some notebooks lately, and I thought about how this: Turned into this: And these drawings: that eventually morphed into this: And love to look back and see how things like this sketch: was the framework for what eventually became the Bike29 online store. Same with my [...]

This morning I woke up painfully early on a strange couch. Sunlight filtering through the blinds like a laser targeted at my eyeballs. A mild headache suggested that perhaps that last beer or two wasn’t such a good idea last night. I wanted to go back to sleep, instead I headed home to gather my wits [...]

Work. Tour. Laundry. Catching up on everything from the day. Inspired to get out on the road bike and change it up a little bit. Forgot that I got a flat 1/4 mile from home the last time I rode it and never dealt with it, so had to start out with a tire change. [...]