Category: Cycling
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What If I’m Fat
You may ask, can I still have fun riding a bicycle if I am fat? Yes, I said fat, and yes it’s time for another C.S. Lewis quote. That guy must have never shut up because you could fill volumes with his quotes alone. “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.”…
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Men in Black
If only I were talking about Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones. That’d be fun. That was a funny movie…still is a funny movie. Whatcom County has our own version of MIB, the MIBOB: Men In Black On Bikes. Those are the guys that ride around Bellingham at night wearing dark pants, dark hoodies, no…
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Enjoyed this TED
I enjoy watching TED’s and more so when they involve bikes. I am not sure where the balance is between cars, bikes, walking and riding WTA. In my view though, bikes are the waifs on the teeter-totter here in Whatcom County. It’s far too dangerous out there, especially in Ferndale.
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Bike Friendly, Really?
Yeah, this is a couple of years old now, but things haven’t changed a bunch around these parts since then. Being #4 bike friendly doesn’t jibe with the number of bikes stolen day in and day out in Bellingham. The #4 rating has got to be based on the wrong stuff and/or is just a…
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Chasing the Computer
It started maybe a year ago. I had managed to amass so many bikes that it was getting too expensive to keep computers on all of them and logistically it’s was a hassle trying to share a computer between bikes that had various wheel and tire sizes. So my answer was to take the 3-5…
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Colorful Stumpjumper
My late 80’s Stumpjumper it really not too far removed from my early/original Stumpjumper. The frame geometry feels the same, maybe with a bit more room due to a longer stem, but essentially the same feel. However, the 8 years of maturing did yield a big difference in rideabilty, and that difference comes in two…
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