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Ride or Pie?!: Touring
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. This is an overview page of all the bike tours I've ever done, with links to ride reports (if available). 2014 S24O Blue Mound State Park. Sadly the only overnight bike touring we did in 2014. But it was great! Finally: The first S24O! Longest tour so far, together with the Biketopus. Day 1: Montreal to Ange-Gardien. Day 2: Ange-Gardien to Mont-Orford National Park. Day 3: Mont-Orford to Lennoxville. My fi...
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Ride or Pie?!: Solstice Ride: The Joys and Troubles of Night Riding
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Solstice Ride: The Joys and Troubles of Night Riding. The latest issue of Bicycle Quarterly. The plan was to head out around sunset and keep going all night until the solstice sun would rise again. I developeded a few tentative routing options and tried to recruit fellow riders. Unfortunately, the few people potentially interested had other commitments that night, and so I was go...
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Ride or Pie?!: June 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Solstice Ride: The Joys and Troubles of Night Riding. The latest issue of Bicycle Quarterly. The plan was to head out around sunset and keep going all night until the solstice sun would rise again. I developeded a few tentative routing options and tried to recruit fellow riders. Unfortunately, the few people potentially interested had other commitments that night, and so I was go...
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Ride or Pie?!: February 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Friday, February 27, 2015. Professional Guide to Wheel Building. But does it work! My review of Roger Musson's Professional Guide to Wheel Building. Is very positive. But how does his advice hold up in practice? Well, I just finished building a 650B wheelset following his advice and using some of the DIY tools described in the book. Crude, but it works. Spoke is already far in the nipple, despite not being...
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Ride or Pie?!: April 2014
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Mercier Bridge with floating ice at sunset. Links to this post:. Ride report: Circling the windmills. Were the engineers slightly drunk when plotting this road? I really miss having Gunnar, my road bike, for rides like this. It's just not the same on Wolfgang. Links to this post:. Saturday, April 5, 2014. Or: The Jacques Cartier is open again! Links to this post:. Want to support ...
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Ride or Pie?!: January 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Dairy Roubaix 2015—Let's do this! Woo, this looks like fun! Image source: Ride With GPS). All relevant info can be found on the official event homepage. Links to this post:. Thursday, January 22, 2015. Converting my Gunnar Roadie to low-trail 650B, part 1. Gunnar with 25-622 wheels/tires. Why change an already great bike? Converting Gunnar is thus the answer to these two points, ...
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Ride or Pie?!: March 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Friday, March 27, 2015. Suggested reading: "Jan Heine: A Randonneur's Long Rides and Strong Words". Is my favorite bike magazine—well, actually it's the only one I bother reading at all—and its founder, editor, and main author Jan Heine has influenced my thinking about bikes and riding profoundly. I just stumbled upon this interview with Heine in The Bicycle Story. Link to the full interview. What was the ...
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Ride or Pie?!: Not my day, but... – Dairy Roubaix 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Not my day, but. – Dairy Roubaix 2015. Mile 50: Turn left and climb one last hill back to the camp site. Or turn right and do another 58 miles. I stopped at the intersection, drank some water, and chatted to some other folks pondering this decision. Eventually I turned left, and it was the right choice, even if meant not following through with what I had planned. At the first res...
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Folks We Follow – Spoke Haven Cycling Club
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Spoke Haven Cycling Club. Eat well, bike often. Let’s Go Ride a Bike. Prolly Is Not Probably. Two Wheels From Home. Spoke Haven Cycling Club. Eat well, bike often. Join us for a Ride! Blog at WordPress.com.
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Ride or Pie?!: July 2015
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Ride or pie - the eternal question. Bike tech, ride reports, and other stuff few people care about. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Riverwest 24: One of a kind. Ten days ago I got a brief Facebook message from Kierstin, one of my wonderful Madison cycling friends: “Alright my friend. You are up. Laura just bailed from our RW24 team to train for the Ironman. You were planning on coming out- do you want to race/ride on our team? 8221; I had heard many amazing things about Riverwest 24. One of Dan and Claudine's VWs.
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