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  • More Bike Evolution (Saddle)

    I’m looking into bikepacking. More on that later. In the meantime, I was starting to train for Le Tour Du Nord , and after a 35 miler, my nether regions were not as happy as I’d like. As I’d been reading about various saddles, I decided to take a chance on a Selle An-Atomica. I…

  • EDC

    I’m a fan of a few of the EDC blogs out there. I think it’s interesting to see what folks carry around in their pockets. So, I thought I’d post my own little pocket-dump. First, some preamble. I work in an office, so of course I stick to understated gear. Because I work in an…

  • And yet another realization about disc brakes

    I did discover another aspect of disc brakes. Especially with a steel fork. Under hard braking, the fork legs flex quite a bit. Like a quarter inch. It was kind of freaky at first. It does make sense. With rim brakes, the braking force is all supported by the fork crown and there’s a long…

  • More on the versatility of disc brakes

    A little while back, I had this epiphany about the disc brakes, and being freed from rim brake position. Well, I put the 26ers with the knobbies back on and took some pictures. Here they are. Pretty bad-ass. Bikes

  • More civilized commuting

    Yes, Urban Bean is just fine.

  • SPRING!

    As I’m sure you all know, this weekend marked the vernal equinox and the formal transition from Winter to Spring.  It certainly isn’t balmy in Mpls yet, but a streak of above-freezing days (some kissing 50!) have left the snow pack on the ropes, and you can tell its not long for this world.  The…

  • Eureka!

    I had an epiphany the other day. With a disc brake bike, I’m freed from the tyranny of the rim position! With rim brakes, you’re kind of stuck with the rim needing to be a certain diameter in order to line-up with the brakes. If you have a “road bike” or a “cyclocross bike” with…

  • March commute

    Here’s a view of my commute this morning.  Pretty snowy, but nice too.  There were stretches of new snow that I was cutting through, and the only sounds were hushed shhhhhh of the tires in the snow.  Of course, downtown was slush and my drivetrain was packed in and shifting was hard…

  • I no longer require the services of Girl Scouts

    Since Keebler is making Samoas now.

  • Eight below zero

    No biking today.  Kinda dangerous.