Batshit for Cycling
Let’s get something straight. I do not jump out of planes. I don’t juggle chainsaws, eat fire, or party with Charlie Sheen on weekends. I ride a bike. And apparently, to some, that makes me batshit crazy. I’ve heard it enough…
Actif Epica – Lessons in Survival
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap (or chick), sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” -Sir Edmund Hillary If I learned anything at last night’s…
A Few (or Four) of My Favourite Things
One of the best things about having a bike blog is that people send you all sorts of sweet bike related stuff to read about and look at. But for someone who is easily distracted, of limited means and even less…
Pins and Needles
After all this talk about riding indoors, I decided to torture myself by cracking open my summer vacation photos. Sometimes I also light myself on fire and poke myself with scissors – just for fun. This was the second year…
Welcome to The Great Indoors
It’s that time of year. You either love it or you hate it. And if you are a non-skiing skinny tire freak like me, the arrival of the winter means it’s time to retreat to the pain cave, suffer den…
Time to Commit
I’ve taken a lot of flack over the uncut steering tube on my new bike. If you are as confused as I was about what that is, in simplest terms it’s the part that attaches the fork to the frame,…
A Reading from the Book of Eddy
After bringing my new baby into the shop for a little nip tuck job (that I will explain in a later post once I have recovered from the trauma), Alter Boy James surprised me by lending me some new reading…
Practical Matters
As far as bike maintenance goes, there isn’t much I feel comfortable doing myself. I change my tires and tubes, lube my chain, but otherwise I am just the the engine and leave the hard and messy stuff to the…
A Fitting End to the Season
Saturday night I stayed up way past my bedtime. But sometimes when the good times are flowing it’s best to just go with it. The evening stared at 4:30 with the official Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Cycling Association….
Remembering
I saw this image in the summertime and have been saving it ever since for a special Remembrance Day post. The caption on the photo read as follows: “A boy went to war in 1914 and left his bike chained…