Sometimes work and play collide in the best ways…here’s a short blog post I wrote for Y2Y based on some of my bikepacking experiences (i.e. once again thinking I’d be able to ride farther than my legs could take me!) Continue reading biking & random camping
After a few thousand kilometres of riding adventures I still find myself tweaking and refining gear choices. While there’ll always be some considerations based on seasons or how light I’m trying to go, I’ve settled on a few key pieces of gear that are always on the packing list. Here are a few things that seem to have found their way into becoming trusty companions … Continue reading gear i like, part 1
a bike ride from Whitefish to Canmore in July 2019… Continue reading four days on the divide
On a hot evening in July 2017 I was hanging out in the parking lot of Canmore’s Rebound Cycle at the “neutral aid station” for riders in the Alberta Rockies 700 bikepacking race, about 1/3 of the distance in along the 700km Coleman-to-Hinton route. So began my tale of riding the BC Epic 1000 bikepacking race in the summer of 2018. For expediency, and out … Continue reading the alberta rockies 500
[If you enjoy musical accompaniment, it is recommended that this gem be cued up and enjoyed whilst perusing this story ] It was a spring evening in the late 1970’s in suburban New York when I pedalled for the first time sans training wheels. The bike was red, and had a banana seat, and that’s all I really remember. Oh, and the neighbours daughter, Amanda, was watching, … Continue reading bicycles i have known
1034 km by bike from Merritt to Fernie. Continue reading the bc epic
A look at some bikepacking gear for the 2018 BC Epic Continue reading bc epic gear
A story I wrote for bikepacking.com on Bikepack Canada founder Ryan Correy’s battle with cancer. Ryan was a big inspiration for many in the bikepacking world and I’m grateful for having crossed paths with him. Continue reading Support Bikepack Canada Founder, Ryan Correy
I ride my Kona Sutra touring bike a lot, mainly as a Canmore-Banff commuter but also for zipping around town for beer runs, groceries, dropping off library books – tasks that really didn’t seem to warrant putting on cleated bike shoes. So from day one I went with a reversible pedal – one side flat, one side SPD – the Shimano A530. Dual-sided pedals seem … Continue reading gear review: shimano xt pd-t8000 pedals
ONE RUN January 2006 – Sunshine Village, AB – Bye Bye Bowl It had been a fairly ho-hum winter in the Canadian Rockies. November followed its normal cycle of some colder days and decent storms, but December and January had been mild. Overshadowed by massive dumps of snow in Colorado and the Sierras, there had been only been a handful of small storms that had … Continue reading Bye Bye
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