IS THIS WINTER?

Long bike rides in MN in February. You betcha! Also tried out a new to me, used camera set up and a $59 fixed lens that I am completely smitten with. Check it out here!

A Warm December Day

I am going to interrupt my 2023 recap posts. Why? Well….It was 60 degrees in December in MN. What does that mean? Riding. That’s what that means.

Seeing through the layers

So I snuck out on the Fathers’s Day for a sunrise ride. I wanted time in the country. I wanted to see the sunrise. I wanted to not share the road with cars. I wanted peace. I wanted silence. Thankfully, I got all those things. As I rode one of my favorite routes, my mind […]

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 […]

My first outing with a production Fuji X Pro 2

The wait is over. The Fuji X Pro 2 is here and in my hands! While I am bummed it didn’t arrive before the event, Frostbike, that I shot last week with a rented Olympus Pen F, it is here now. I am so thankful for my friends at National Camera Exchange. They had one […]

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 […]

Cold & Lonely Miles

I’ve been trying to get some miles in before my fatbike tour that is coming up all too quickly. So when my daughter had a soccer game south of town in Northfield, I decided to ride to the game. I left early when the sun was out. I was thinking it was going to warm […]

A day on my favorite roads on my favorite bike

I took a day this week for an Interbike detox? What is an IB detox. It is a day void of smoke, fake sounds, big promises and people. The only part of my day that resembled Vegas was excess. This time though it meant excess joy, satisfaction, time, and saddle time. When I planned it […]

Father’s Day Fargo Ride

For the second time in a month, my son’s second day of his soccer tournament (Unfortunately, his Sunday Championship game day) got cancelled due to weather. While that is terrible news for him, it was great news for me. I made coffee and quickly headed out in the dark, cold, windy and rainy morning. As […]

Chasing Clouds

I just wrote a couple of days ago about the lesson of taking advantage of what you have rather than focus on what you don’t have. So when my son’s soccer tournament was cancelled due to rain and weather, I took the opportunity to go for a much needed, longer ride in the country. Ahhhh….A […]