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2023 Baker Hill Climb
The 2023 ride is in the books as they say. I continue to use both this and the Tour de Whatcom as fun measures of my fitness. That may not be an all encompassing metric, but I figure I’ve got to be at least somewhat fit to finish either ride. If I finish with a…
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Raleigh Lenton
This morning I had four vintage Raleighs, but when I saw an ad for Raleigh bike with fender and pump…well I looked and I saw the worn “LEN.. ON” decal, then I went and bought my fifth vintage Raleigh. Oh, and it is my size. It doesn’t look or feel like anything has been asked…
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Not Vintage….Yet
I like vintage bikes, but I also like bikes that aren’t vintage yet. On rare occasions I buy a new bike, like my Raleigh R600 which I bought new in the 90’s or my Hardrock that I think I bought in a showroom maybe late 80’s? More likely, I buy something relatively new like this…
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Tour de Whatcom 2023
My wife had a Facebook memory pop up from my first Tour de Whatcom(TDW) century ride in 2015, making this my ninth ride around the county. We had the Covid year but I did my private “outlaw” version. Then I had the year where it overlapped oral surgery so I did the 40 mile route…
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New Hosting
You may find that things on this site are empty or misplaced. I am in the process of moving away from Godaddy as a hosting service. I found them to be expensive, especially for all the problems with keeping behind the scene things up to date and how sketchy it was uploading media. Overall it…
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OG Mountain Bike
So this story goes that sometime way back in the early 90’s, this guy who had done a lot of road riding in his life decided, that he, with a couple of his friends, should try this new craze called mountain biking. That guy was me and I was dirt poor, but I knew enough…
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