Some Firsts

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Published Aug. 2, 2010 at 11:32 p.m.
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and some first-in-a-long times ... Led the PV 14-16s this past weekend with Dan L. I took the 16mph end of the spectrum. Finished with a 14.1 avg mph, which says pretty much 16 on the flat with no wind assistance. Getting faster! ... Sunday, I set out to do some vertical feet. First in a long time - I rode by myself. After a few near-death experiences back in 2003, I pretty much stopped riding by myself, unless it was a commute, or a ride to meet someone. As the family member who would worry

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Fignon: A Coq Crowing!

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Published July 27, 2010 at 12:31 a.m.
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As my birthday is fast approaching, Laurent Fignon's much awaited book, 'We We're Young and Carefree' has arrived in the mail. He's unspoken, brash and tells it like it is without holding back. His two Tour victories (1983 & 1984) still bode well as epic and caused the French fans to open their hearts to a new, young hero. The eight second loss from Greg LeMond was his fall from grace yet he survived it all, somehow.  That's what I aim to find out in this much anticipated expose on le

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Cycling Shorts : 18 July 2010

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Published July 18, 2010 at 2:56 a.m.

Lots to report on in today's shorts ... 1. The doping saga continues : The truth is out there ... TREK and Lemond have been subpoenaed this past week! The NY Daily News is at the height of their game, reporting on the minute-by-minute news in the doping drama with great finesse. Yesterday, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche had published mindblowing details of an interview with Lemond. Among the things Lemond told journalist Andreas Burkert was that Armstrong had vowed to pay $300,000

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Mostly, I do this ride for the ice cream...

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Published June 27, 2010 at 12:13 p.m.
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While deciding where to ride this weekend (that I'm riding is rarely questioned), Cecil proposed a ride out to Multnomah Falls ... We'd meet up at the Kettleman's Bagels close to her house ... Other persons were planning to also ride out to the Falls, but starting later in the day ... Following my practice of doing as much preparation the night before, I made a couple of sandwiches (smoked turkey, cream cheese, cranberry chutney in a pita), set out the water bottles, 2 bananas and a couple of

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Oregon Blue Mountains 1000k Ride Report

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Published June 21, 2010 at 11:38 p.m.
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I finished. All 622 mountainous miles ... with 13 minutes to spare. Don't really have words to describe the range of emotions and sensations experienced in this 74-hour 47-minute ordeal. But among them is a sense of relief that Paris-Brest-Paris may actually be feasible next year ... Prior to this ride, I failed to write about my previous two significant brevets. Before last month, I documented every randonneuring event I've ridden since the Desert Rivers 600k back in September, 2008 (which has

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Three Prairies 200km Permanent or There's a Lot to be Said for Being Healthy

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Published June 12, 2010 at 10:41 p.m.
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Friend Susan has been bitten by the R-12 bug, and she needed a ride for June ... She recruited Cecil and me, and after Cecil suggested that we DON'T ride the Scio Covered Bridges Perm (I was going to make the same suggestion, but kept my mouth shut), we settled on the tried-and-true, never disappoints Three Prairies route ... Two loops - a longer one to Dallas from Newberg, and then a shorter one to Mount Angel from Newberg ... All the hills are pretty much concentrated on the first loop, on

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frack.

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Published June 11, 2010 at 5:20 p.m.
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why is it that everything needs replacing at the same time? why? ... Rear rim on Bleriot: ... 8400 miles, often riding in wet and gritty conditions ... Phone call into Rivendell, one rim, one rear cassette (time for a new one of those, too), some 650B tubes headed my way ... Someone here can dismantle the old wheel and rebuild it with the new rim ... Someone with a Park spoke cutter ... Needs a replacement tire as well ... Michelin Axial Raids are no longer manufactured, and I am not, at this

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Stupid Things, or Bridge of the Gods Ride

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Published May 23, 2010 at 11:32 p.m.
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Cecil rounded up a crew for her birthday ride ... We were riding on of our favorite routes - Bridge of the Gods, typically starting at Edgefield in Troutdale, crossing into Washington on the I-205 bridge, east on Hwy 14 to the Bridge, then west, riding on (variously) the Cascade Locks-Eagle Creek MUP, I-84 (just about a mile), and the Historic Columbia River Highway back to Edgefield ... The weather was (at its most pessimistic) supposed to be mid 40's to high 50's, with a 30% chance of light

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Floyd Landis visits Amgen Tour, reportedly apologizes to Greg LeMond

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Published May 22, 2010 at 6:40 p.m.

Two days after shocking the bike world by admitting that he doped and accusing a long list of star cyclists of doing the same, Floyd Landis appeared at the Amgen Tour of California time trial in Los Angeles Saturday. And ESPN.com reports Landis called Greg LeMond Friday to apologize for an incident at his 2007 doping hearing ...

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Waking from my furry little hibernation

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Published May 20, 2010 at 1:31 p.m.
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It's been a long time since I wrote my last blog ... At first it was due to hibernation, fattening my furry little self up and sleeping away the winter. Then it may have just been a lack of creativity. Not much gets me riled up these days, and without a sense of riledness I don't find interesting topics to write about. Maybe it's the run out of my Bicycling subscription, and the subsequent lack of renewing it on my part. I was hoping to get a complementary "lemming" subscription to Bicycling,

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