It’s not too often that I throw the bike in the car to drive to the start of a ride, but on Monday, that’s exactly what went down. A friend was in town and wanted to get out on a long ride to initiate his new Clément MSO tires. Mike Cherney is a long time […]
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One of my favorite morning rides is the out and back to Kehoe Beach on the road. There’s also a dirt option to the same vicinity with about the same mileage which is … actually have no idea how many miles it is. It is about 90 minutes, though. And now looking at google maps […]
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Got out for a post-rain, pre-feast ride on the road bike. With fenders, it’s no problem to head out for a ride without having to think about how the road/weather conditions will affect your ride. I’m not a big fan of going out to ride in the rain if I can help it, but it’s […]
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How many times have you ridden past something and taken it for granted? Ridden past something and thought “I should stop sometime and check that out?” Anyone who has ridden past the town center of Inverness on Sir Francis Drake Blvd. has seen the old boat that’s been stranded high and dry on the beach […]
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Following Cam’s advice on this post, I saddled up last Sunday and rode south on Highway 1 and found Coast View Trail several miles south of Stinson Beach and just south of Slide Ranch. It was definitely more technical than Stagecoach Fire Road. More technical since it was a single-track climb for a bit over […]
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In 2009, the Dino Ride rolled through Pt. Reyes Station stopping at the shop to have a broken spoke replaced. The owner of the Richard Sachs ,whose spoke broke, was also the organizer of the ride. In 2010, he invited me to participate on the ride, but I had other obligations. I also didn’t feel […]
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Took some pics out on a ride last Sunday. I rarely do any digital working of the photos I take in the shop or on the road. I may occasionally crop a photo. Sometimes a photo looks like it would be better in black & white. When I do convert an image to b/w, I’ll […]
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I’ve been meaning to pedal to the top of Tam on the dirt on my road bike for some time. The problem is that the most road bike-able dirt road up Tam is Railroad grade, which starts in Mill Valley, a good almost 2 hour pedal just to get to the start. So I pulled […]
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All this talk and waiting for frames has left me not riding as much the past week or so. And we’ve been having some spectacular weather! (To my snow bound brethren, do not read the next couple of sentences.) And the spectacular weather isn’t finished with the area yet. It’s supposed to hit 70 here […]
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The weather has been pretty dang awesome in these neck of the woods – well, when it’s not raining or the wind is howling. But other than that, it’s been really great. Here’s some images of some road riding. The first set is from the Marshall Wall loop one early morning a week or so […]
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Been a while since I rode the Marshall Wall loop. A simple 35-ish mile loop out Pt. Reyes-Petaluma Rd – Hicks Valley Rd. – Marshall-Petaluma Rd. – and back Highway 1. Some decent climbing – 2,400 total, and it should be noted that what goes up, must come down. During the 13 mile stretch from […]
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One of the blogs I read on a regular basis is written by Dave Moulton. Dave is a retired frame builder who made frames for Masi and under his own Fuso brand. I really enjoyed his latest post “The Art of Doing Nothing.” For me that’s something I can do pretty easily. However, when I […]
Filed under: Black Mountain Cycles frames, Rides