A Nod to Nothing

I had Juneteenth off and I have for quite a few years.  I have some opinions about who I work for, so that's not surprising.  I took a r...

These aren't in order, but that's ok.  You can wander around freely in my bike rides.  Ironically, I was talking earlier about so ma...

Got a flat today.  The flat sort of sealed, but I really should have had a spring top off, because it wasn't a full seal and the tire st...

I bit the bullet and signed up for Zwift.  I went all in with the Zwift ride, a faux bicycle specifically designed so I never have to attach...

This last week I finished up Heidi Across America: One Woman's Journey on a Bicycle Through the Heartland  on loan from the Duluth libra...

The Friday before last I pedaled a 60-mile ride up around the cities - both of the Twins - and back home.  Part of the reason it was such a ...

Last week, I took a ride down into St. Paul.  It's the winter of no snow.  I have this nice fat tire bicycle [see an earlier post], but ...

I spent a lot of time pondering buying a new road bike.  New as in used.  There's a lot of inventory out there.  But sitting in my perso...

This was the first year in....three....that I've done the MS Ride Across Around Minnesota [RAM] ride.  The last time was literally as I...

On Friday I pedaled from Eagan up to Banning State Park near Sandstone, MN.  Good trip, although not particularly exciting. It was mostl...

Yesterday I pedaled up to the Finnish Bistro in the Como neighborhood of St. Paul.  Very close to the State Fair.  Given the Fair is going t...

I like bicycling videos.  There's a whole post about them around here somewhere that's been slowly falling apart as the videos disa...

Every time I see these markings on local trails, which must mean it's due for some sort of maintenance, I can't help but think stay ...

Last weekend I rode out to Hastings on an Ingress hunt.  There was a portal at Spring Lake Park Reserve that was holding up big fields.  The...

Last Sunday I decided I was lacking in longer rides because of Ingress.  Ingress tends to slow me down to 7-8 miles in an hour on average.  ...