Archive for the ‘adventure/story time’ Category

Track Team

Know some history and read some cool news. Team GB Track Cyclists on the BBC Other cool cycling links are to be had from that page. Dig some and read. BMX is in there! HISTORY. Rob

Pump Track night aka. JOHN 7:15

So last night Hutch and I drove out to Johns house for Pump Track night. Damien also came out and rode it with us. It was a fun night with the four of us riding and taking pictures and laughing. Since you’ve never seen it. Here’s the track…, it’s hard to really see it’s layout [...]

Mel’s Account of a Recent s24o up here in the Centre PA

Dear Bloggers, I am writing this entry with a crumbling piece of charcoal found on the ground by a fire pit. I stare at 50 black flies as they suck water off of my discarded shoes, in a third world sort of way. On both sides of the bench are my damp belongings strewn about [...]

S24O : Summer Solstice

The Sub 24 hour Overnight during the pivotal point of summer. The longest day of the year with a full moon to boot. We ( Casey and I ) cycled up into the Frederick Watershed and camped out at a well known site at the bottom of the drop trails. My Hercules was all ready [...]

playing tag with a rattlesnake and blackbear

fortunately i am not “it”. the other day i was up on tussey mtn, no paved roads, loads of dirt and rough fire roads. i was out on my trek, with the 650b 33mm tires and mafac racer brakes. I had just finished riding down a really long, really rocky section, and was a bit [...]

Praha – Wien pics and more

_ So I have finally gotten around to picking and cropping images from our bike trip/tour from Prague to Vienna. With some stats, here we go… (don’t miss the story in the mouseover captions) Praha – Wien Greenway (day – summary – start town + time – end town + time – distance, time and [...]

roughly a weeks caloric intake

Day 1 – 88km (preride: 1.5 ham and cheese sandwiches, water, orange juice, slow release vitamin C capsule) 1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water ham and cheese sandwich on buttered roll, 1 pack Clif Bloks pork chop steak with potato wedges 2 – 17oz beers, 12oz Coke 2 cups of tea Day [...]

paris-roubaix [pâ-rē rō-bā], verb

1. to pedal a bicycle along the edge or gutter of a rugged or rutted path in an attempt to find less demanding, smoother passage. ex. I just rode 500km from Prague to Vienna, and some of the roads were so rough I had to paris-roubaix that shit.

long silences dont mean i have not been doing things, riding places, finding stuff, packing up, plotting, or doing lawn maintenance. so forget those bad thoughts, and read on…

. . . . Mel has been riding some sugino xd 500s for a while now, but for some reason, no matter what, they get chain suck. not every ride, not every shift, but sometimes it happens. And its not her fault. I rode it and the same thing sporatically happens to me. What gives? [...]

day ride/a tale of two one point fives.

. By the light of the day the pimp’s yellow ochre suit is plain beige. The rotting wooden trailer out front is the same emerald green as the swing that sat under the willow tree for years after the willow had blown down in a windstorm, 15 feet from the porch where I slept, dead [...]