We’ve had a lot of rain recently and today there was finally a solid break so I hit the road. Gotta say, the full-coverage fenders are really nice. Keep’s the bike clean and when venturing out on the point among all the dairy farms, it keeps the cow muck off the water bottle – and […]
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Like I mentioned, when I have something to say, I’ll say it and after this mornings road ride there were two things that became clearly evident. One is riders of the pavement still don’t know how to ride in a paceline and 28s just flat out rule. I had reason to hit the road this […]
It’s funny when you look at a potential ride on a map and you see that it’s not that long compared to other road loops by its physical presence on the map. Then you get out and what you thought you could crank out in a couple of hours, turns quickly into three. And so […]
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Boy, guess I’ve been a little busy. A friend pointed out that it’s been a while since I updated the ole blog. It’s not like there hasn’t been anything going on, quite the contrary, actually. It’s that I’ve really tried to limit how much time I sit in front of this dang computer. So, where […]
We are supposed to get rain on Thursday. It’s about time because the area really needs it. Water rationing is a very real possibility and a current reality down in Bolinas. However, the summer-like weather brought out the cyclists in droves to West Marin. I definitely attribute my January sales to the weather. Compared to […]
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Yesterday was spectacular. About 55 degrees, clear skies and no wind until the last 14 miles or so and then it was a really nice tail wind. I had initially planned to ride out to the lighthouse and back after reading aboug JimG’s 200k brevet, but upon checking the weather at the lighthouse and finding […]
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A group of seven vintage bike kooks met up in Fairfax to take advantage of a holiday and the incredible weather we’ve been having. I spent the prior day getting my Ibis SS ready to ride. The one thing I wanted to do was get the Suntour XC Pro rear derailleur and right side Suntour […]
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We’ve been having unseasonably warm weather. The thermometer topped out at over 70 degrees yesterday. I set out on a ride to take advantage of the weather and my day off. I had set up the Rawland with the 700×45 wheels for the mixed-terrain ride I was planning. The burly knobs of the Panaracer Fire […]
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We picked a pretty cool time to move to Pt. Reyes. Just after we moved here, work began on the restoration of the upper end (south end) of Tomales Bay. For the past 60 years, the land had been protected from the water by a series of levees creating pasture land for grazing cattle at […]
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There are those few days when the weather is simply fantastic. The past couple of days were like that. Sun’s out. Not too hot. Not too windy. Not too many cars on the road. This morning, I told myself that I was going for a ride before opening the shop – and I did it! […]
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When I moved here, I did some internet searching for rides in the Marin area. What I found were a few personal websites/blogs that seemed to favor my favorite type of rides. They called them mixed terrain rides – combining paved roads and trails and dirt roads and trails. I like riding my bike wherever […]
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