Cycling is a great way to both enjoy the journey and the destination. Put another way it makes getting there fun. But how important should goals be? Are goals like finishing an event or standing ...
Monthly Archives: May 2018
The Pull: Allen Lim
Allen Lim has spent his career guiding athletes to their best possible performance. From the UC Davis Cycling Team to grand tour riders, Lim’s career as an exercise physiologist was focused ...
The Gap Between
He’s up the road; that’s it. Never mind the road is unpaved, only as wide as a sedan and peppered with rocks like black pepper on scrambled eggs. How easy it is to choose resignation ...
Friday Group Ride #409
You’re late. This happens because you like riding bikes more than you like not riding bikes. So, the two hour spin you sketched out in loose terms in the morning, turned into a three four ...
Paceline Podcast 114
After a brief hiatus, the Paceline is back in a slightly different format. Fatty has a new Leadville podcast he’s producing, and as one of only eight people to complete Leadville 20 times, ...
The Pull: Gabriel Lang
This week I interview NAHBS Best in Show winner Gabriel Lang of Altruiste Bikes from New Brunswick, Canada. Lang won with a long-travel 29er that was truly unique among the bikes shown at the ...
Savage Wind, Absent Legs: the King Ridge Dirt Supreme Grasshopper, Part II
For Part I, click here. With only 25 miles completed of an 80-mile day, I was having thoughts of turning around, heading back to the 116 and pedaling the couple miles back to my car. It was that ...
Savage Wind, Absent Legs: the King Ridge Dirt Supreme Grasshopper, Part I
The darkness comes. I was still more than a mile from the coast when I realized that the wind had blazed to life wildly earlier than usual. All the coastal grasses and wildflowers were flattened ...
In Any Light: Shimano S-Phyre Eyewear
One of the upsides to moving from Southern California to Northern California is that the sun isn’t quite as bright. You don’t need quite so much sunscreen and you don’t need ...
Clearing Trail: Silky Saws’ Pocketboy
I have earned the right, by some small miracle of sweat and diplomacy, to ride on some trails in Western Sonoma County. Lacing through the hidden logging roads is hand-cut singletrack. This is ...