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Big 5-Oh for Ken Eich
Up at 5, but today no pool. While the bread pudding with prickly pear syrup warmed up, I pumped the tires of the still quite new DeSalvo 29r up nice and hard. Fingers barely functioning in the frosty...
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Have it both ways
haircut day Last night I hit the sack with Charlie at nine, as usual. After five days of shivering, sweating, feeling horrible and doing even less than I normally don’t do, I was gonna kick this winter...
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The definition of ‘wild’ keeps changing
Wild used to mean riding five hours to Tomales and back (80 mi.) , having lunch, then going out a few hours later for a three hour moonlight dirt ramble with Fisher, Koski and the boys. With nothing...
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2012 Induction, US Bicycle Hollow Fame
SeeKay, me, George Mount and Joe Breeze at Freeborn Hall. On a fine fall day, the great Peter Rich (owner of recently closed Velosport Bike Shop in Berkeley) picked me up from the bus stop to trundle...
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Reunited, two ‘pipe guys’
Ken D. with Charlie and the ‘Cunningham V’ Today we had a visit from one of the original handful of ‘Ham owners, a fit gentleman who (as he put it) “rode his bike hard and put it away wet”. He’d raced...
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Davis hosts a party for the pedalocracy
Autumn in Davis is always colorful, exuberant, and bicycle-intense. Thousands of new students on campus figuring out how to get around the campus on two wheels (not all are adept, but most become...
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Offhand Manor Minor Mods
Now and then* Charlie will be confronted with small failures, disappointments and glitches caused largely by Things That Were Made Cheaply and Thoughtlessly. A consummate machinist and tool-user and...
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The Moto Ides of March
March 14 (Pi day!!) and 15th (Julius Seizure Day!) marked a long-awaited road trip down to Santa Cruz. Bicycling in Santa Cruz easily rivals our riding here in Marin–both road and offroad–and for 25...
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The Great Brain Robbery
Teatime at Offhand Manor. Photo: Carl Gooding In 1999, Trek bike company parasitized my years of hard work, good will, and brand management to sell to women. I used to be able to produce and sell out...
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So long Owen
Last Saturday, a few of us convened to say goodbye to a friend and mentor who had died the previous month. Owen Mulholland (I’m leaning on him, and he’s with his twin, John Mulholland) was one of the...
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