Category Archives: Random

Spin Class is Boring When The Instructor Plays Lousy Music and Talks Too Much

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

It’s winter and that means I do little riding out of doors, and am relegated to the strange windowless back room of my suburban rec center, where I sit on a stationary bike with, oh, 54 other folks, and I … Continue reading →

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What’s Been Up Lately (On Two Feet, No Wheels)

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

I haven’t ridden in a while. Real life has rudely intruded. Though sometimes it’s good to let it, so you can get the itch back again. In the meantime, I have polished up some riding haiku. I’M NOT SCARED HAIKU … Continue reading →

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It’s All in Your Head

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

There are those certain special sections on your local ride. You know them well. They’re sorta scary, but not really dangerous. But the line is difficult to find. Often you pedal up to the first part of a series of … Continue reading →

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Bike Sharing is Fun!

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

A few weeks ago, while in Washington, D.C. at a conference, I had the great joy of finally trying out a bikeshare bike, DC-style. They were around all summer here in Denver, but I never got around to it. Too … Continue reading →

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Garaging. Not Good.

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

This, from the department of self-disclosing dumb things I have done. For a while I had the habit of placing my bikes on top of the car in the Thule/Rocky Mounts/Yakima rack, and then forgetting that there was, in fact, … Continue reading →

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Is This Going to Live Forever?

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

No riding today: blah gray sky, melting snow. The trails are probably total muck. (I am going to overhaul my Mavic rear hub and go for a road ride, though. Wish me luck.) In the meantime I’ve been lying around … Continue reading →

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The Weeks Slide By

Posted on August 1, 2009 by

How does time cruise by so quick? Suddenly I wake up and it’s August, and I haven’t ridden in almost a week. And I am already nostalgic about the rides I have taken, like the one at Buffalo Creek where … Continue reading →

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Watching the Tour

Posted on July 22, 2009 by

I’ve been watching a ton of TV coverage on this year’s Tour de France. I’m watching to see who’s going to win that day, will those wild breakaways succeed, who’s in yellow. I want to know what those crazy-long stages … Continue reading →

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Confluence

Posted on July 3, 2009 by

Sometimes you get out on a ride and everything meshes together. Your bike shorts seem to fit perfectly–no binding, scratching, impinging on, ahem, certain special parts. The bike feels lighter somehow, it seems to want to stay underneath you and … Continue reading →

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The Trail Always Lies Ahead

Posted on June 18, 2009 by

The season has begun in earnest, though the weather has been incredibly bad here in Denver these first few weeks of June–daily tornado warnings, wicked heavy hailstorms. Plus, as usual, I am a very busy man, with classes to teach, … Continue reading →

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