Month: April 2018
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Granny Insufficient
I’ve always known granny gear as a truck term for the often ultra low 1st gear in many 4 speed manual shift trucks, a gear meant to allow trucks the ability to get heavy loads moving or to keep them moving up steep slopes. However, the max speed in that gear may be no faster…
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Six Low Dollar Fixes for Ferndale’s Trail System
I started writing this post to talk about how I see the general state of getting around by bicycle in the greater Bellingham/Whatcom area. My address is Ferndale so I began writing by commenting on the general state of getting around and through Ferndale by bike. Before I knew it I had the whole screen…
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Nooksack Loop Trail – Full
I’ve written about the Nooksack Loop Trail (NLT) before here & here, and also likely mentioned it elsewhere. It’d be a great trail to have running around Whatcom County, just don’t see it ever materializing. So until never arrives, I will just keep riding my version of the loop trail. My version essentially follows the…
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16
I’ll delve a little into politics here for a quick moment. I am hearing a lot of murmuring about a movement to allow voting by 16 year old people. I think that’s a bad idea, but… A vote will create laws and elect lawmakers who help determine community/national direction, yet at 16, or even 18…
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Rain Rain Go Away – Updated
Not too long ago I wrote a post about riding in the out of doors regardless of the weather. I will still stand by that notion, however I am tired of the rain and cold weather that “seem” to have been the norm this year. I used the bunny quotes because I never did a analytical…
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Raleigh Twenty Folder
Yes, I got one of these. Not because it is some amazing bike, but because it is such an amazing oddity. 20″ (451) wheels on a bike for full-size people and it folds and it’s a 3 speed Sturmey-Archer. Waiting on new tires so I’ve only ridden up and down the neighborhood a time or…
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