The Salsa Cycles Deadwood comes to life

I know this bike is over a year old but I have changed my methodology for building new bikes. No more do I throw everything together as fast as I can with a hodgepodge of parts. Instead I pain over every detail and build it when I have all the parts, or at least very […]

Ben’s Custom Pofahl

I haven’t shared much here on the blog about my current bike set up lately. Partly because I am in transition and have several new bikes in process. But partly it is because I have been stable for the past year with the following rig. But…I did find some time to ride with a good […]

A Day In the Country

I have hit 4 straight weeks of riding early Friday AM. Honestly, since I changed jobs 3 years ago, that is a record. Sad but true. On this day it was glorious. Perfect. Beyond my expectation. Just me, my bike, my friend and the country. We also did the Rawland route in Goodhue County. It […]

The bikes I rode and loved in 2015

As I continually process my year and prepare for another year, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight the bikes I loved and rode the most in 2015. I work in the industry and rode a lot more than what is pictured here, but these are my personal bikes that I spent my own […]

My new All-City – First Ride

The planets finally aligned and the weather cooperated, giving me the opportunity to do the Friday AM ride before work. Aside from the greatness that is being able to ride my bike with a friend, drink some coffee and see the sunrise, it was the maiden voyage for my new All-City Cycles Macho King, Team […]

SaddleDrive 2015

I spent much of this week in Utah at an event put on by my employer. For the last 5 years, SaddleDrive has been a pilgrimage to Utah to ride and release new products. While it is a work event, each year I do try to sneak out in between our Rep day and our […]

Krampus Kleaning

I have a couple of friends that think I don’t maintain my bikes. While they may be dirty and occasionally make some noise, they generally work pretty darn well. But….To show them that I do in fact work on my bikes, here are a few pics from spring cleaning. My Krampus needs to be prepared […]

Nightrides and Powderkeg sighting

Last week was glorious here in MN. The weather broke again and this sudden change for the better coincided with a short break from my kids’ evening soccer regimen. This gave me the opportunity for some much needed gravel riding. With a little time and with a little encouragement I hit up a ride out […]

Babe the Blue Ox

After many, many months of riding fatbikes Babe the Blue Ox left the garage today. I intentionally quit riding skinny tire bikes sometime last fall to prepare my body for my Desert Ramble tour. When the temps hit near 50 today and the blue sky came out, I knew it was time. Oh sweet Lord […]

One More Year

It’s been a year since I re opened, or re activated, this site. Before I get to thoughts and what’s to come, I renewed my domain name for yet another year so it looks like I am going to stick it out. I had almost 40,000 visitors last year. That’s not that many as I […]

Getting Out

I have few words today. Words are all jumbled around in my head. I’ve been riding and shooting just a little tiny bit. Even those rides and moments of shooting images have helped me. I think I am just sensing a gang buster of a 2015 and it starts immediately again on Monday. I don’t […]

Global Fatbike Day is Everyday!

Saturday was Global Fatbike day and I was pretty stoked to have the day planned riding with my son and my friend John. Riding on the weekends is a treat for me that I often don’t get to enjoy. To make this opportunity even better, I brought a bike home from work for my son […]

Desert Ramble – The People!

After a week of exploring the desert southwest with 9 others and after 17 hours of driving, I am back in MN. I left the desert tired & inspired and returned to snow. Crazy. Yet, even with snow I can’t curb my enthusiasm for this past trip. While it didn’t go as planned, it took […]

Ice Cream, Coffee and a surprise visitor

What a morning. Brought an Ice Cream Truck home from work. Had to get out to ride it and have some coffee outside before leaving for Chicago. What a perfect and blessed morning. As if it were not perfect enough already, while sitting motionless on a rock taking it all in, this guy decided to […]

3 out. 1 in.

3 out. 1 in. I am purging right now a lot of gear. Bikes and camera gear. Gotta go. It feels good.