I spent some quality time on my Salsa Beargrease and on my Santa Cruz Blur last week. The Beargrease is an awesome bike. It’s a lot of fun to ride and leaves you giggling as you bounce along the trail. It is however, fat. That doesn’t mean it’s slow but it is more bike to…
Category: Cycling
Crossed 4000 miles for the year tonight
Tonight riding with the Logan Race Club up Blacksmith Fork Canyon I crossed 4000 miles so far for the year. Thanks to Shawn Collins and Affiliate Summit that’s $4000 towards breast cancer research. I love to ride, but each time I ride there’s the added motivation that every mile is another dollar towards a cure.
We are amazing. Riding the MS150
When I was a kid I saved up and purchased a Specialized Rockhopper. For a 14 year old the $450 spent was all the money in the world. It bought Shimano Exage components and a rigid fork and frame. This was the early days of mainstream mountain biking. I immediately became a fan of Specialized…
Biking and Raising Money
I woke up at 5:51 this morning and rode hundred miles. I didn’t mean to. I stayed up way to late. I didn’t eat right. I’m filled with excuses. Not meaning to ride sounds odd and it is. The act of riding is intentional and the number of miles ridden can’t be an accident. Riding…
I put on a little fat. It’s kinda sexy
Salsa Beargrease The Salsa Beargrease is what happens when a Ferrari and an Abrams Tank have a one night stand. The bastard child of the cycling industry, fat bikes are finding their place in the mainstream of mountain biking. While most sales guys will tell you these odd balls with ginormous tires find purpose in…
Beautiful day. Had to blow off work for a ride
I’ve spent the winter on a trainer. I don’t mind the experience so much. It’s not like riding outside, but I do it in hopes of maintaining some level of fitness during the winter months. The first ride of each Spring provides an opportunity to gauge whether all the time spent spinning my legs watching…
My Morning Coffee
Plenty of us working stiffs here in the United States wake up each morning a bit groggy as we prepare for another day as a cog in the grind. That means coffee is the most widely traded agriculture commodity in the world. Inject hot air, sugar and fat into coffee and a 25 cent cup…
Mountain Biking Oahu
Friday I managed to get some mountain biking in. Years ago I read about mountain biking in Hawaii and how awesome it was. It is awesome, but I don’t remember reading about getting an ass kicking in the article. Oahu is beautiful and the mountain biking was a fun challenge, but tree roots and mud…
Logan Canyon Bridger Lookout
Took the cyclocross bike up the canyon this evening. It’s a great bike and climbs really well. However, the steeper descents in the drops lead me to be a more prayerful man. I originally intended to just ride the River Trails, but I couldn’t resist the climb up to Bridger Lookout. Colors were spectacular.
Providence Canyon
More pictures from yesterday. This time from Providence Canyon and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. The Forest Service is putting in a new road which means the top section of the trail was bulldozed. Still it makes for a great ride. The last image is a a view of Cache Valley from the Bonneville Shoreline trail….