One good thing about coming back from vacation is that I’ve been pleasantly surprised this week about how much more daylight there is. The weather was pretty cruddy the entire week before we left so it’s been two weeks since I rode on a pretty day. The shot above was taken Monday morning just a [...]
Archive for February 2012
Time for Sunglasses
February 29, 2012Ambivalent
February 28, 2012Registration for Ride the Rockies 2012 has now closed. I got mine in and expect to find out sometime this week whether I was drawn in the lottery for one of 2,000 slots. But, you know what? I’m pretty ambivalent about it. On one hand, that ride has been on my bucket list for several [...]
Foiled
February 27, 2012My regular lunch date had a meeting today, so I decided to walk down to Queen City Cycles to buy a new supply of “commuting lube”. For commuting, I’ve been using Finish Line Cross Country lube and really like it. It’s made for the sort of lube it and forget it mentality I have about my Surly. In [...]
Not missing it
February 20, 2012For some reason, I’m not caring that I’ll go a week without a bike ride…. God bless…. TW
HillTopping
February 16, 2012Here in the Ozarks, there is a disturbing activity among young, foolish drivers to fly over the crest of a hill so fast that they become airborn. It’s called hilltopping. It’s been going on since before I was that age, and tragically, every few years somebody gets killed because of it. It also scares [...]
