Category: Cycling
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Seahawks vs. Eagles
After so many weeks of not watching the NFL, today rolled around without so much as the tiniest thought about football. Seahawk vs. Eagles, I don’t really care, it’s like rooting for Target to beat out Walmart during their black Friday event. blah. Today’s route took me to Ferndale via Axton Rd, one of the…
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Early Stumpjumper
It may sound a bit weird, but I have grown fond of this particular bike. That’s because finding it really marked the beginning of me getting myself back into riding bikes, rather than periodically just moving them from one side of the garage to the other. My “go to” bike for the last few decades…
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Blogging Again
I think I wrote my first blog post back in the early to mid 90’s using text files and coding HTML. That was fun, sort of, because not many people were posting stuff online. It was also pointless because not many people were reading online, let alone reading my stuff online. Easy to understand why…
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Bygone Biking
In the bygone days of biking my recollection is that there were only two types of bikes: Bikes and 10-Speeds. Maybe I was too young or stupid to know, but in my world there really wasn’t such a thing as road bike, city bike, trail bike, mountain bike, etc. bikes; there were just bikes. Road,…
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Progress
If you’ve been hiking or biking for long you’ve experienced what I refer to as progress. Trails can either evolve spontaneously or can be planned and developed. What I refer to as progress happens when the best of the spontaneously evolved trails are sent to committee, so to speak, and developed. Often this involves consensus…
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