Currently I’m anchored down in Houston, and in an effort to pass a little time I decided to take my father-in-law on a five-hour road trip to Mellow Johnny’s Bike shop in Austin. I enjoy visiting bike shops, just as I enjoy checking out wood/metal workshops and artist studios. When done well these spaces have […]
Author: MikeMcGuffin
Crank Stranger
After an hour-long drive down narrow fog shrouded Texas farm roads I followed the sign and turned right down the gravel driveway towards Huff Brewing. Riders were already heading out for a day of gravel riding east of Houston on the organized ride known as the Crank Stranger. Bicycling events are few and far between […]
Prison Run at Four Notch
For me bicycling is about community, and while spending two weeks down in Houston I was happy to find a loose affiliation of riders known as the Houston Gravel Grinders. Via the HGG Facebook page I met Mandi, owner of Race Ready Repair in Conroe, Texas, who invited me on a 44 mile gravel ride […]
Itsabitch
Fall is here, but that doesn’t mean that that bicycle adventure has to go into hibernation. As I so often like to say: adventure is outcome uncertain, and this ride certainly had a moment of uncertainty. I wanted a new and more challenging/interesting way to link up the eastern and western sides of the Snoqualmie […]
The Unpaved Masses
In the before times many of us two-wheelers here in the Pacific Northwest eagerly anticipated the drab, gray, wet, perhaps even hostile, coming of winter weather. This excited anticipation could be summed up in one word: cyclocross. We of the wet north not only tolerate cold, wet riding conditions, but we actually celebrate the mud […]
A Big BigIdea
Fall has descended upon the Pacific Northwest, and with the changing of the season comes rain, wind and chilly temperatures. By the time of the harvest moon I’d normally be knee deep in cyclocross, but this year “ain’t no normal;” it was time to refocus. In late August the owners of MFG Cyclocross (Seattle race […]
Packing List Olympic Circumnavigation
What I brought, what I left behind and what I wish I’d brought
