Worth watching:

They say Portland is a bike Mecca, but this is taking things to a new level. Check out this 1.5 million dollar custom home built around a storage area for 22 bikes.

We spent about two hours repairing this section of trail last Saturday as part of a trailwork event at the Crest Ecological Reserve. Five days later I take a hike with the wife and baby only to see what’s been made of our hard work.

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Friends don’t let friends ride trails right after the rain.

 

I had a BMX friend growing up who was a non-native English speaker. Though his English was actually quite good, he would occasionally say things that crack me up to this day, including “cactus make tires go poppy.”  As I carefully positioned my bike between a saguaro and a small barrel cactus for this picture, taking care to avoid a sidewall puncture from the wall of thorns, I thought of my old friend and had another chuckle.

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The picture was taken on Phoenix’s South Mountain trail system, where I was able to squeak in a three-hour ride on a recent trip to visit family. Arizona has some stunningly good mountain biking. I hope to be able to get over there a bit more in the coming years to take advantage of it.

When I don’t even have a $7000 coffee bike?

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That’s a Moots, by the way.
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The traffic sucks and there are way too many people in this state for my tastes, but with afterwork rides like this, much can be forgiven. Looking forward to the arrival of “winter,” which is in many ways our best riding season.

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Hat tip to John Durant.

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Especially when it takes 52 miles and 6500 feet of climbing in 90 degree weather to get to the campsite. Luckily, I had some solidarity when I got back:

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