Some things you love, some things you hate and some things you just take for granted. You should never take your bacon for granted:
-M
Author Archive for Wolfy
| August 10, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 am | to | 8:30 am |
It’s that time of the year again folks. Time to shake the sand out of your vaginas and slather on the chammois butter for the Second Annual Great Mount Rose Loop Race.
Second Place Finisher in GMRLR07 VNasty is race coordinator for the year and here’s what she has to say:
OK. Sunday, August 10th @ 6:00 AM @ Brick Park, Reno, NV it is…and don’t even start with that I might not finish sh-t, we won’t get pass my house on Geriatric Pubic Hair Street with that attitude. I’m CCing Turner on this one. He might be into a longer ride like this? I’m trying to enlist a friend of mine from Truckee to join us. She’s a bad ass and is really hot as well-a fine carrot to chase down come hour number 10. If Dansmella wants to come up to the house for lunch that day she’s more than welcome. Smitty has agreed to be available for massages and lemonade delivery (not sure if that applies to you too?) I have only one small route deviation to suggest from last year now that I know the Sawtooth Trail system better. It’ll be a cleaner ride to 06/Northstar.
The route is over 100 miles and a shit ton of climbing. Other route mods might include riding to Martis Peak and down into Kings Beach on fire roads. Includes: Henness Pass, Emigrant Trail, Sawtoothe Trail, Tahoe Rim Trail (watson to brockway), Sky Tavern, Galena Creek, White’s Creek, Thomas Creek, Bartley Ranch…
18
Jul
Pushing the pedals
Photo by forkgirl
Here’s the situation, You have a road bike and a mountain bike and you want to use one of them for your commute to work, daily coffee shop run or to do a drunken pub ride.
Problem is, those bikes have fancy clipless pedals that make it tricky and dangerous to ride with sneakers (which are great for strolling), and your clipless shoes are hard and tight and uncomfortable and crappy for walking. So what do you do? Take a pair of shoes? Deal with the clips? ride carefully with your sneakers on those tine little pedals?
What if there was a sturdy, safe, and robust product that could convert any clipless pedal to platform and solve this problem for less cost than a new set of pedals that won’t send you running for a pedal wrench and trying to remember which one is back threaded…
We may soon find out. My sister is designing just such a pedal for an engineering class @ UNR. Please help her out by taking this survey she and her team needs to gauge the marketability of the product. With our help she’ll be the first bike product development engineer on the team!!
-M
15
Jul
Halo trail
Flagging a new trail w the poedunks. Check www.poedunk.com For updates.
“Handlebars” by the Flobots
-M
10
Jul
Get used to the smoke
RenoslashTahoe is set to remain Flavor Country for the indefinite and immediate future as the American River Fire Complex might not be contained until OCTOBER!!!! That spells bad news for people who like aerobic exercise, the outdoors and lung health. But what are you going to do? You can’t blame California for everything. They’re doing the best they can. It does make our Nevada smoking ban seem a little meaningless. Why can’t we be down wind of Humboldt county?!!?
More links:
News 10
The Union
Sac Bee (potentially lethal smoke, YAY!!)
-M
TBS needs a new header image!!!
As such I am hereby instituting the first EVER Team Bacon Strip Header Photo Challenge!!!!!!
As such I am hereby instituting the first EVER Team Bacon Strip Header Photo Challenge!!!!!!
Find a photo that says, “adventure” and “summer” Send it to this address: TeamBaconStrip@drop.io, or upload @ this url: http://drop.io/TeamBaconStrip#.
Winner will recieve Dinner for two with Wolfy and Smella!!!
Keep in mind the aspect ratio fo the current header image and the decidedly Bike bent of this site in the summer. Although grommets, climbing, and home improvement are big with the team now (not to mention carnage and convalenscence…)
-M
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07
Jul
Oil crisis?
Many of us here in bacon land ride bikes as basic everyday transportation, not just for recreation. And if you look around, we’re not alone. The good weather and the bad gas pricing has nudged people out of the bucket seat and onto the saddle in recent months. Still, as Jeff points out on bikecarson.com, you’d be hard pressed to call this a sea change.
I’d add to the discussion that getting around without the use of your car at least once a week, or even once a month, if everyone does it, can save money for fuel, maintenence on your car, and save us all a lot of money on maintaining the roads. Check out the RTC Washoe Website for information on Public Transportation and the RTC Rideshare program, where you can use a database to connect with people with similar schedules and commuting routes EVEN ON BIKES.
Also, let’s not loose sight of larger problems when gas prices are high. Carbon emissions and air quality is still a major issue here in the Truckee Meadows. Hopefully our resident CO2 expert can elaborate on that for us. And riding some crappy moped you bought at a garage sale might save you some cash, but it’ll put out way more emissions than an H-2. In the long run that will be seen as stepping over dollars to save dimes.
And I can’t help but wonder when people will be priced out of their pickup trucks. I’m not talking about people like the GrislyBikeGeek who uses his truck for work. I’m talking about that douchenozzle in the magnum powerwagon with dubs and the NorCal sticker who floors it on the green and rides your ass only to have to hit the breaks going uphill! You have to assume that behavior will change before people get rid of their vehicles which obviously are closely tied to their self image…
-M
Just a week ago J.R. did a big Tahoe Tour. On his way home he was hit from behind by a drunk driver on McCarran. He came out of it pretty damn well. And the team, with the addition of another new member, rolls on. Congrats, good luck, thank god, holy crap etc…
-M
New book on cycling in reno by b delbert williams. There’s a whole chapter on college cyclery, the oldest bike shop in reno.
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