Category: Rides
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Trash Tuesday
It’s been raining litters of kittens and puppies here lately so I couldn’t resist a potentially rainless morning commute. Even being Trash Tuesday, it was still a nice commute and it was Whitey’s first. Whitey is a nimble bike so dodging trash dumpsters was a non-issue. Update – commuted several more times since this…
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Whitey’s First Ride
Got Whitey together and serviced enough to take him for a ride today. Did my Mixed Loop Route in Ferndale, along the Nooksack River. It’s my goto local ride and a good place for a first ride. Mostly because if something goes desperately wrong it’s an easy walk or an easy call for help, but secondly it…
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Just Another Day
I know it’s been said, because I’ve said it, that we live in the Pacific Northwest so if we were to wait until it quit raining to do something then we might never do anything. That was my thought as I left my wet driveway this morning for a relatively quick 11 mile loop in…
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Crisp Morning on Galbraith
Crisp is code for froze my rear end again. Didn’t even start until almost 6:30am, but even that was too early. My fingers haven’t been that cold since I was a kid, who didn’t want to come in from sledding, but now I fancy myself as an adult and as an adult I should know…
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Signs of the Times
So I rode my Noon Road Loop again today. It’s a nice 24 mile loop that I do pretty regularly. It appeals to me because most of it is through farmland and along back roads. I was going slow today, likely slower than usual. But slow can often have silver linings, which it did for…
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