Category: Bikes and biking
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Ride the Line
Snow biking is a fantastic core workout. The only consistently rideable line today was one of the snowmachine skid tracks. Which is hard work, especially managing traction uphill with a 20:19 low gear. On the penultimate climb of my mighty four hour ride, my abs were cramping. Which I’ve never before experienced. Unfortunately, the following…
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My commute
I prefer getting to work on my bike. Sitting in a car in traffic is not fun, and while too often a necessary evil, not especially healthy. This is axiomatic. To add insult to injury, it’s 2.5 miles from our house to my office, and a significant majority of the stop lights in Kalispell lie…
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A few weeks of fat
Not the ideal position to haul skis (tails should be lashed lower). Also note modded Tubus Cargo hauling a deer leg. Now that I’ve had the Mukluk rolling for a little over two weeks, it’s time to discuss the dreaded initial impressions. I think this bike holds a lot of promise for the near future…
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Ski season is over
Not really, but when the above was waiting for me after work yesterday, I got more exciting than I have about skiing for quite some time. Always seem silly to take the best looking component on the bike, coat it in grease, and hide it from the world in the dirtiest place inside the frame.…
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The Entire Enchilada
I’ve you’ve never been to Utah, and do something other than go canyoneering, you should probably do this: Make sure you’re a solid technical rider, or you will loose teeth. Seeing this video (not mine) brought back good memories of an extended trip, climbing up from town to do that descent, back in 2007.
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All the hats
I like hats, and my collection often and properly earns me derision at the hands of M. Rather than deny the dorkiness inherent in this, I embrace it. I’ve de facto pared the collection down quite a bit lately, such that a mere five hats get regular use. They are pictured below, and a discussion…
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Best of 2011, part 2
2011 has been an extraordinary year. If the mission of this blog is to explore the cultural consequences of personal development as driven by outdoor adventure, this should have been a good year for blogging, which it was. This time last year I wrote that day trips were bullshit, and that the packraft made further…
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A Bedrock & Paradox holiday trip guide
The best gift for an adventurer is a great plan in a brand new place and a way to get there (gas $$, plane tickets, whatever). Problem is, dialing in a destination typically takes trial and error, which is why so many vacations end up scratching the surface, doing the same old trips which might…
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The Quiver Quantified (backpacks for the woods, part 2)
M and I currently own nine packs. When I collected them all from corners of the house a while ago, she was surprised it was so few. I say we, and she uses some of them plenty, but let me be honest: I’ve been the prime mover behind acquiring every one of them. As part…
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Thus do I refute Keith Hammer
We in America have a problem. Idiosyncracies of our wilderness preservation laws and their implementation and advocacy have (largely) bifurcated those dedicated to the outdoors as a worthy part of American culture. I’ve yet to find a more stark articulation of this than the Swan View Coalition’s Code of Responsible Recreation (link withheld to protect…
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