Category: Cycling

  • Monster Cookie — success!

    So, the great recumbent roundup (aka, the Monster Cookie) was a rousing success. Kyle tried out his new high racer and got lots of looks. It’s a very unique, light (21 lbs) and fast bike. Both Kyle and I ended up doing a full century…100.4 miles to be exact. We padded about 18 on the…

  • Let the cycling season begin

    So I’m just about ready to head out and do the Salem Monster Cookie, a metric century (60 miles) that takes you from Salem, Oregon north towards Portland, OR. It’s a nice easy ride that’s always a fun way to kick off the riding season. As past practice, a few of us will be turning…

  • Keeping your cycle rolling

    Most folks know, I love cycling and am probably one of a relatively few number of folks that commutes any real distance that actually puts more miles on their bike than they do in their car.  I was figuring it out last year:  ~15,000 miles for the bike, ~10,000 miles for the car.  🙂  So when I…

  • Kyle’s just nuts

    I’ve been starting to look this upcoming summer and trying to decide which century and double century rides I’ll be participating in this summer.  There a a few that I always ride in, like the Monster Cookie at the start of the year which is just a metric century and a good stretch of the…

  • First frost

    Ah, enjoyed the first frosty ride of the morning today.  It was 37 degrees at my house and ~31-32 our on the highway (its actually interesting, I’ve found that temperature can vary by almost 10 degrees once you get out into the farmland) making the farm land a very sparkly white.  Fortunately, I grabbed some…

  • Daily commute

    I’ve been playing with the Microsoft Live Writer and have been itching to include a map into one of my posts.  So here’s a good one.  Here’s a map of my daily commute — 50 miles, round-trip down hwy. 99.  It’s actually a fantastic ride — with mostly courteous drivers (till you hit Corvallis anyway) —…

  • Gone a blackberry pick’n

    I was only a matter of time — but I finally broke down and took the family down to the coast to do some blackberry picking.  You see, in riding my bike between Independence and Corvallis every day, I get to smell the blackberries along side the road.  Now, I wouldn’t eat any of the…

  • When things go ouch

    This weekend, Kyle Banerjee and I drove down to Shasta for the Shasta Super Century.  This is a 135 mile, 16,500 ft vertical gain ride the finished with a quad-burning ride up Mt. Shasta.  This was a ride that I’d been looking forward too but apparently my body wasn’t.  About 6 miles into the first…

  • Just finished the STP (204 miles in one day)

    Its late, actually early (Sunday morning) — but I just got back today from doing the STP.  204 miles of cycling fun taking you from Seattle to Portland.  Lots of fun — me and my closest 9000 friends pack the streets of Seatle till you are able to create some space (by riding faster than…

  • New Bike — sortof

    Today, for the first time, I found myself on a recumbant.  A friend of mine had one that he was able to setup for me and let me tool around in it as we took an extended ride.  Definitely different.  When I first got on, I couldn’t figure out how I was going to be…