The day is clear in Issaquah, but misty in the mountains, so Jimmy has to [...]

Today Joe "that's rando" Platzner, Michael "the Guth" Guthrie, and Matt "I bought a boat and damn near forgot how to ride a bike" Newlin learn that while Kent "the Mountain Turtle" Peterson can usually manage to navigate his way back home from the wilderness, [...]

OK blog readers, let me say this straight up front: I'm hitting you up for money in this post. Actually, I'm explaining how I manage to fund my adventures and you might find that interesting but they'll be some "here's how you can help" begging' [...]
Mike and meet up at Sandy's Espresso in the town of Carnation. It's a wet and windy Monday and I've been thinking about excuses. Excuses are interesting things, they are the way we structure our arguments to make it seem as if we are rational' [...]
The good folks at Bike Hugger pointed me to this wonderful example of nonsense in the field of headline writing by Tweeting:
Suspect headline of the day: Children prefer homework to bikes wazzat? [bit.ly]
Following the link leads to this story in The Daily Telegraph headlined
Children prefer homework to bikes, [...]
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Montreux is, to put it simply, a beast. If you have a climbing cassette for your bike, bring it. If you have a small electric assist-motor, [...]



My pal (and I know he's my pal because he's mocked me on his blog) Elden "the Fat Cyclist" Nelson is continuing in his quest to raise something like fifty-seven trillion dollars to fight cancer. Maybe it's not quite fifty-seven trillion, but it's a lot [...]
From A Trip to Evergreen
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Since this is a cycling blog, you might guess from the title of this post that I'm going to talk about some fifty mile bicycle ride, but today I'm going to talk about another journey. My wonderful colleagues at Bike Works knew I'd be taking today' [...] 



Picture of me riding the 1999 Paris-Brest-Paris courtesy of the Internet Wayback Machine