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Category Archives: Sekai 2500
Your speed may vary. 30 days of biking, #5
I don’t ride fast enough to need a faster bike. You know: a newer bike, a lighter bike, a bike with 12 cogs in the back, a bike with a carbon-fiber frame. My average speed this year has been somewhere … Continue reading
Posted in #30daysofbiking, Bianchi, Sekai 2500, Uncategorized
Tagged #30daysofbiking, average speed, bicycle, bicycle speed, bike, fixed gear
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Goodbye, N + 1
N + 1 is the formula to calculate the number of bicycles one should own. Have one bicycle? The right number to own is two. Have 15 bicycles? The right number is 16. There are at least three reasons why … Continue reading
Building better signs
It’s fun to ride a gravel bike. Unless, that is, you’re focused on the idea that some roads are really supposed to be blacktop. Like Santa Fe Road in Hallock Township. Back in the spring, workers turned three sections of … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Report from the road, Sekai 2500
Tagged gravel road, Hallock Township, maintenance, Santa Fe Road
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Day 21. #30daysofbiking
While drinking by the blanciest of casas blanca, this conversation: Rick: We’ll always have the wind. Maybe not tomorrow or next week, but whenever we ride. Ilsa: Yes, the wind. And in the mornings, perhaps less of it. Rick: You’re … Continue reading
Posted in #30daysofbiking, Report from the road, Sekai 2500
Tagged casablanca, conversation, imaginary friends
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Day 20. #30daysofbiking
That lowly braggart, that big ol’ ball of flames, did promise fair chase this day, but as his want this April, abandoned the chase well before the climb past the lilacs on Santa Fe Road. Scoundrel.
Posted in #30daysofbiking, Report from the road, Sekai 2500
Tagged arkel tailrider, sunrise, the invention of clouds
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