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Thirty-six hours before I was to board my flight to Colorado to race the Leadville 100 I was riding peacefully in my backyard canyon, trying to keep my legs loose. That’s when I felt a terrible “ker-chunck!” from somewhere and felt my bike sag depressingly towards the ground. Shiny metal fragments flew off my [...]
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Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to watch the Stage 8 of the Tour of California as they raced over Palomar Mountain, here in San Diego.
Levi, on Jens Voigt’s wheel, being LeviSTRONG.
We rode up Palomar the morning of and reveled in the spectacle that is a bike race. There was the Pope, the Antler Guy, [...]
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The best bike shop in San Diego is Bicycle Warehouse, especially the one in Kearney Mesa run by Jeff and Morgan. I’ve been to most of the bike shops in San Diego and I think Bicycle Warehouse head and shoulders above the rest. I’ve been a customer of Bicycle Warehouse ever since I bought [...]
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In a fit of frustration and anger, I picked up a good sized rock and threw it as hard as I could at my bike. The rock bounced off the saddle. I’m surprised it didn’t bounce back and hit me in the head. That’s just the kind of day I was having.
All [...]
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I just didn’t feel like writing and now I do. It’s really as simple as that.
But just because I wasn’t writing doesn’t mean that the Adventures came to a stop. Since we last got together, I’ve chosen 2009 goals, designed a new training plan, integrated mountain biking into my life and ridden about 1,029 miles [...]
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My friend Ajay is currently the fifth most successful fundraiser for the upcomming MS Bike Tour, having raised $4,832 so far in the fight against MS!
Ajay is a founding member of Team Climb On! and was our leading fundraiser in our innaugural appearance at the MS Bike Tour last year. He’s the guy in the [...]
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Remember when they said that computers and the internet would isolate us from each other? They said we’d spend all day inside, “playing” with computers, disconnected from the “real world”…
Here’s a map that Google Analytics provides which shows the global distribution of web traffic to this site over the last 30 days. Make sure you click [...]
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One of my first adventures after getting back on a road bike was riding last year’s MS Bike Tour. It was my first century ride ever and my first exposure to charity bike rides.
With just a month to go before this year’s MS Bike Tour kicks off, I have to thank everyone who has so generously [...]
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Last year, my friend Andrew invited me to ride the 2007 MS Bike Tour with him. It’s a 150-mile event over two days that raises money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Wow – 150 miles! The longest I had ever cycled in a day was maybe 40 miles – could I ride a full [...]
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Thanks to Bike Noob for tagging me. Rather than tempt fate , I’ll go ahead and comply with the instructions. Here it goes…
If you could have any one — and only one — bike in the world, what would it be?
My bike. I love it and it loves me.
Do you already have that coveted dream [...]
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