Category: Bikes and biking
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Haglofs Ozo review
I’ve taken this evening to wrap up the final details on the Lightweight WPB jacket State of the Market Report for BPL, a project whose complexity I seriously underestimated. Testing 10 jackets with any sort of meaningful depth is not simple, and present the summation of all that time in the rain such that anyone…
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Read this blog: AK Pete is back
During the 2007 Kokopelli Trail race I kept yoyoing with this tall guy on a red Lenz with a big black pack. He’d stop to take pictures or eat in the shade of a juniper and I’d plug past, only to shortly be overtaken yet again. I lost him as he continued to diesel along…
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Snow! riding
Guess that tread. As a counterpoint to the previous two days slow and coldish walking through the forest, yesterday I decided to celebrate yet more new snow with a fast and coldish ride up to Kintla Lake in Glacier NP, along the newly closed Inside North Fork road. The dirt road up from Columbia Falls…
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Wilderness racing in the Lower 48
We need to bring Classic-style racing to the lower 48. Insofar as that is possible. We should because it’s awesome, and because I think it’d be reasonably possible to approximate the experience in many important ways (but definitely not all). We because I reckon there aren’t too many essential players in that process who don’t…
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A test of patience
My new bike is pretty sweet. I underestimated the excitement it would engender. (Thanks B!) The fatness is pretty giggle-inducing (insert phallogocentric bike quip here). I approve of the stickers. Being reflective is a great touch. I’ll take it to the LBS to get the headset installed once the new crown race comes in, but…
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Autumnal photos and new bike dread
The height of the Aspens and Cotttonwoods has passed, but the Larches are just coming into form. I’m excited to get a new bike. Bikes are really cool, one of those items whose durability, aesthetic potential, and utility all unite and form a strong bond. To prepare, and prep the Karate Monkey for winter (and…
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Simplicity: Gear
It’s too bad Ryan Jordan’s blogging is so stochastic. When he does write, it’s always worth reading and is usually one of the more thought-provoking things I’ll encounter online in that particular week. The most recent post is no exception. In it he discussed favorites bits of gear (and when I say gear I mean…
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More pointless bullshit
I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. -David Foster…
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A Question of Scale
Paige emailed me today asking about the progress of the Alaska move. The real and only answer is that I’ve been thinking about it, a lot. She did attach her and Luc’s argument in the affirmative. (I heart Ronald Jenkees.) That argument, in more prosaic terms, is that Alaska has big wilderness of a kind…
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1/3 of a Jam (this one’s for you, Eric)
With huge photos for maximized investigative ease. Eric was disappointed to learn, back in July, that I was using a commercial pack for the Classic. He surely knows that the mind, once enlightened, can never rest. And he is thus not surprised by the developments detailed herein. I really like a lot about the Jam. …
Bedrock & Paradox 
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