Gravel

As is the fashion of the current day I ride tubeless on my gravel set-up.  This past weekend I picked up two shards of glass early in the ride, after a bit of latex spray both holes sealed and I was on my way.  There while waiting for the ferry there was some discussion with […]

This past Saturday Ryan, Joe, Mykenna, Mike and I took the ferry over to the Kitsap Peninsula to ride the Bremerton Gravel Grind.  The BGG is an individual time trial wherein the clock starts when you exit the Seattle-to-Bremerton ferry and stops when you return to the ferry dock.  The route was posted the day […]

In short it’s not as easy as it would seem. For the past fifteen years my wife and I have been building a cabin in the woods.  The access road is unplowed and impassable from early November until at least late April.  The road is a popular ski and snowshoe destination, and the steady beat […]

I like how ideas form in the mind.  They get in there, roll around a bit, they grow and mature, and before you know it you have a plan.  My latest plan combined two goals: do Rapha’s Festive 500 (500 km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day) and complete a 500 km brevet (500 […]

My recent ride through the Green Mountain and Tahuya State Forests hit all of the high points for a great day of cycling: great company, great terrain, great scenery, great (albeit cold) weather and great adventure. Mike, Ryan and myself boarded the Seattle-to-Bremerton Ferry with a kind of cursory agenda to explore the spit of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]