THE MN STATE FAIR – THE GREAT GET TOGETHER

I fear that I might lose my Minnesota citizen’s card by what I am about to say, but I feel I must confess. I have not been to Minnesota’s State Fair in over 20 years. There, I said it! This past week though I redeemed myself. I took a day off after working 13 days […]

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 […]

Our trip to the Pacific Northwest

Last week my wife and I celebrated our 16th year of marriage by traveling to Seattle and the area north of Seattle. It was our first trip in many many years without our children. Our plan was a couple days in the city and a couple days out of the city. We found out […]

Maah Daah Hey

Next weekend is the MDH trail race and I have a number of friends doing the event. I had the good fortune of riding and touring the trail recently. I took two day and rode much of it. I didn’t have enough time to do a full out and back or a coordinated drop off […]

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 […]

All-City Championships Women’s Street Crit

I finally got my sorry butt out and about the city. I’ve been dying to go downtown to ride and shoot. So…When I had the opportunity to go out and shoot the late evening All-City street crit, I took it. I grabbed my Fuji XT1 and the 16mm and 90mm lenses and hit the streets. […]

What the heck?

Looks like in a two month span, I will go from my peak traffic ever with my Trans Iowa V11 coverage to my slowest month in years. Heck, I have only 1 post this month. Yikes. What the heck have I been up too? Well…..Living life, that is for sure. I’ve been mostly hanging out […]

Dirt + Burgers

It’s a boy weekend here at the Gnat household and we took advantage of it. Early coffee, Xbox, riding mountain bikes followed by burgers. Topping off the evening with pizza, popcorn and a movie. It doesn’t get any better than that. Hope you all are having a great weekend too. What will our tomorrow bring?

Trans Iowa V11 Starting Line Portraits

I posted on Saturday evening a quick series of portraits. These were quick edits and I noted in the post that I may take them down after I edit the images and see them on my larger monitor. Well….I deleted that post from a few days ago and am reposting today my Starting Line Portraits. […]

Trans Iowa V11 – My Photo Story

I mentioned last week that I had a surprise for you. The surprise was that I went down to shoot Trans Iowa. The surprise was that I did not tell my good friend Guitar Ted that I was coming but I had arranged a ride in the official photo vehicle of Wally Killburg and Studio […]

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 […]

Coffee On The Rock

Got out for a quick ride this AM with my buddy John. I’ve influenced another person to get outdoor coffee gear. Today was his maiden voyage with gear. We knew just where to go, the rock. It was a cool, brisk morning so we hid a bit out of the wind while we made coffee, […]

Life is Now

I wrote a couple of days ago that I took a vacation with my family and have been out of town. We took spring break near Tulum, Mexico. This post is really directed towards friends and family as it is mostly family pics, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about the title […]

One Two Three

Spring broke early here in MN. Rather than writing & reading I’ve been riding and shooting. It was quite amazing to be out and about without snow in mid March. I say that knowing the flip side that our mother earth will need moisture early this year or it will be a dull and waterless […]