If you’re in Denver, find yourself a Westword and check out the cover story! It’s also online for your reading pleasure. We’re packing up the short bus as we speak for the West Coast! Denver! I’ll see you in a few weeks. West Coast, I’ll see you tomorrow! The list of people I have to Continue reading…
Yesterday, I was researching untested terrain to ride my bike up to. I was looking for mountain roads I have yet to try out, which is slim pickin’s in the winter time, as road conditions are going to suck anywhere with surprise! ice on the roads and inclement weather means a snowstorm, not Continue reading…
A beautiful Sunday in Colorado. A nice 80 miles riding to White Ranch to Golden Gate Canyon State Park and taking Golden Gate Canyon Rd. back to Golden. Find some new-to-me trails to ride around in Riding feels strong, I’m about 5mph slower loaded than unloaded, a little worse on the climbs. Pretty pleased at Continue reading…
Having covered our plains with highways, factories and cities, having subdivided our hillsides into suburbs, having deepened and dammed up the rerouted our rivers to make seaways or sources of electric power, we have left only the ocean and the mountains to remind us of what we cannot do to the landscape. — Isabella Bird, Continue reading…
A short tale of overdoing it. I decided earlier last week that I should join the Colorado Randonneurs on their 300km on Saturday. “Haw haw”, I thought, “I could polish off a 300km ride no sweat” In fact, my plan was to ride the 20 miles to the start of the ride, ride the ride Continue reading…
White Ranch Open Space Park, clear skies Snow Squall moving In Snow still around at the top of the ridelines in Golden Gate Barker Dam, Nederland Public Sculptors of a former professor of mine in Boulder I spotted a dirt road from Golden that seemed to go all the way North to Coal Creek Canyon Continue reading…
Rode 105 miles on Wednesday, far more than I intended, but happy nonetheless to cover the miles. The original plan was to ride fairly directly to Idaho Springs and follow the, “Oh My God” road to Central City. “Oh My God” is, I think, simply an old dirt road first graded during some gold rush,used Continue reading…
A Tercel is a Young Male Hawk Falconers used to believe that the third hawk egg in a clutch would be a male. So they call a young male hawk a “tercel” from tertiius, “third.” Who knows why carmakers name their cars the way they do. Taking the gas cap off stick it in my Continue reading…
Sunday, I decided to join the Rocky Mountain Cycling Club in Boulder for their first Populaire of the season. A, “meet and greet” 108km ride, to get you acquainted in the strange world of Randonneuring – a French-flavored, ultra distance uh, “sport”, where various cycling routes are put together with a time limit to complete each Continue reading…
As been my convention and as mileage is slowly being increased during the Month of March, I’m seeking out routes that will keep me occupied and interested – creative minds can bore easily with repetitious activities. If this bid for the Tour Divide becomes nothing but a slog of miles over the same routes for Continue reading…
Sunday’s ride started at 5:50 in the morning, the goal being to get up – and over Squaw Pass, a gamble to do in winter, as it peaks at over 11,000 feet.Then, down into Colorado Springs and take the bicycle route that follows I-70, using frontage roads, old HW-40 and the Scott Lancaster bike path. Continue reading…
UPDATE 4/1/11 – Hey, I did it! – Between 3/5/11 and 3/31/11 I was able to log around 1331 miles. YEAH! The below fundraiser is going to go on until April 7th, 2011 – now you have an even better reason to donate, as I’ve held to my end of the bargain to ride so Continue reading…
It’s sincerely not against my character to take on major goals completely out of order, so when I admit to you that I signed myself up for a 2750 mile mountain bike race, without having ridden a mountain bike any appreciable distance since many years before I lost my delicate virginity, you will not find Continue reading…
Sunday: Rode to Red Rocks and back. Looked like this: It has snowed the last couple of days, so my route consisted of bike paths that were: * well shoveled, * barely shoveled* not shoveled *at all*, where forward motion was very slow or, roads that were somewhat sketch and filled with snow, dirt and Continue reading…
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