Category: Cycling
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What a cookie 🙂
Well, another year, another great monster cookie ride. The Salem Bike club does such a frantastic job of putting this ride on. The volunteers make sure that that the oranges, bananas, and peanut butter stays flowing and the then course itself is gorgous. Its a mostly flat course that takes you past lots of farm…
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And so the cycling season begins….
Whoo! The summer cycling season for me is starting up. Its 7 AM, about 45 degrees outside…sunny and I’m getting ready to head out the door to ride in the Salem Bike Club’s Monster Cookie event. This is a really cool metric century ride that goes through the Oregon Wine country. Its a well done event…
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Snow in March
Oregon obviously isn’t known for its snow — especially on the Valley floor. But I get up today to ride my bike to work and what do I see….SNOW. Not a lot, but enough and in March. How odd is that. Anyway, got go hope on my bike. –Terry
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Morning commute
What a morning…two flats, one giant rip in my rear tire…thankfully I wasn’t too far from home and was able to gimp my bike back to my house. What a morning! Actually, one of the flats was my fault. When I changed the first tire, I was in a hurry and simply yanked off the…
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How demoralizing
The wind this morning was downright brutal. No only did it take me longer than normal to get into work — but the gusts were strong enough to nearly knock me off my bike. I spent the better half of my ride out of my seat and leaning against the wind to keep my balance. …
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Some people….
I was riding my bike home this evening and I’m not quite sure what gets into some people. When I first started riding between Independence and Corvallis 3 years ago, I use to get a lot of kids in their big truck honking or yelling at me on my ride — particularly in the winter…
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Rivers still rising
So I’ve taken to keeping an eye on the Luckiamute River near Suver, OR (http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pqr&gage=suvo3&view=1,1,1,1,1,1). Hwy 99 crosses this river in a low spot and I’ve been watching this river go up and up and up. Fortunately, I don’t think I’m going to see this cover the road. It might flood just about everything else…
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Cycling in the rain
Its still storming and raining here in Oregon. Today was great. This morning, I road into work (25 miles) and battled with wind all the way in. Fortunately, this is what I wanted today. However, coming home — the wind was gusting up to 35 mph with constant 13-15 mph wind…I was fast. 25 miles…
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Icy in Oregon
Well, you can definitely tell that its winter. On Thursday, when I rode my bike to work, it was 16 degrees at my house and in single digits over the course of my ride on the highway. When I got to work, I was frozen over — my eyelashes, eye brows, gloves, etc. It was…
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What are they thinking!?
This is definitely going to be one of those venting type of posts. I was enjoying myself — riding my bike in this morning in the cold morning air and between Independence and Corvallis — I was having a great morning. Then, I got to a 3/4 mile stretch right after the Luckiamute River bridge,…