My current do-it-all bike has served me well for four years now (including surviving two Oregon winters), but it’s about time to retire it to full-time rain bike status. It still has original components – a mix of 9-speed Dura Ace and Ultegra. It’s been crashed, spokes broken, 5-gallon bucket handles wrapped around the fork, [...]

Here’s a Panorama shot from Bryce National Park yesterday.  I merged it from 12 photos taken at the Bryce Point Overlook.
See the big version here – still only 25% of actual size.

If I were to print this thing out at 100%, it’d be something insane like 50 inches tall and 360 inches (30 feet) long.

Almost exactly a year ago I was behind the wheel of an 8 ton box truck driving on ice headed to Boulder, Colorado to officially wrap up 6 months of what was certainly one of the high points of my life to date.  I still can’t quite wrap my mind around just how amazing that [...]

I’ve been commuting by bike approximately 14 miles each way to and from work 2-3 times per week in the last month.
My morning commute is perfect.  I head out the door into crisp, if not cold morning weather, catch the sunrise over a calm Columbia River with Mt. Hood as a backdrop, and avoid much [...]

It’s 3:56PM on a Sunday afternoon, and I’m sitting in my apartment without any pants on.  This is primarily due to the fact that if I did happen to be wearing pants, they would be rubbing against my still raw road rash from a nice little spill I took yesterday.
It’s been a rough couple of [...]

It’s the off-season!  Back to some running, bodyweight workouts, and I think I’ll be joining a gym for the next couple months.  Time to keep the metabolism and aerobic capacity high while building some leg muscle and toning core/arms.
It’s also cyclocross season.  I had a bit of a rough introduction to cross – crashing out [...]

Yesterday marked my long ride ever, coming in at approximately 139 miles as a part of the Rapha Gentlemen’s Race.
We headed out to the beach (Lincoln City) on Friday evening and stayed in a suite at the Inn at Spanish Head thanks to team president Jim who served as sugar daddy for the evening.  We [...]

I’ve finally got my cyclocross bike together.  For those who aren’t familiar, at first glance it looks like a road bike, but there are several important differences.

The frame geometry is slightly different to provide more clearance between the wheels and the frame.

The bike uses mountain bike pedals
(in this case a variation on mountain pedals [...]

This weekend was Eugene Celebration Stage race, a 3-day, 4-stage race including a hill climb prologue, road race, individual time trial, and criterium.
The 3 mile mile prologue climb up MacBeth was my old stomping grounds, and I set a new personal best of 12:00 flat up the climb (old record was 12:41) to finish 6th [...]

This last weekend I found myself out of cell phone range for the entire weekend, and it was great!
It was Hanson family camp weekend, the big annual camping get-together of my mom’s side of the family. There are a lot of us.

My aunt and uncle own a large plot on the Umpqua river, so [...]