Musings about life on two wheels

  • Lowly Worm

    My Daughter and I have matching tattoos of Lowly Worm, a Richard Scary character that she & I both grew up with. It really didn’t strike me until after we got the tattoos: Lowly is hard to explain. The thing I like about the Richard Scary books is how charmingly absurd they are. The busy,…

  • A quick summary of what’s important

    Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Tied for 1st place. Family. Good Friends/Good Stories Help others when you can.

  • United Healthcare CEO Murdered

    I don’t think he deserved to be gunned down. This seems like a pretty unpopular opinion. Most of the folks in my bubble are reacting with ‘good riddance’ vibes. I get it. He ran an organization that profited by making it hard (or impossible) for people to get healthcare. The funny cartoon out of this…

  • OKAY

    Okay is a strange word. What it expresses is so essentially human, it has to be a fundamental concept. But as a word, it has a pretty mysterious entomology. OK (or Okay, or Okeh) basically means: acceptable. Are you OK? Yep, I’m acceptably well.  Can I do this? OK, that is acceptable. It’s one of…

  • Lovely Sunday Ride

    Out with the elders. Sounds like there may be some trips this year. Okanogan San Juan’s Oregon Mt. hood? Gravel ride?

  • PDX Thx 2024

    Just back from Thanksgiving in Portland 2024 We saw friends (Kate & Dennis, College Buds), toured some schools (U of Eugene ^h^h^h Oregon, OSU) and saw fam. Oh and some shopping & Car charging. Dave’s Hi/lo/Buffalo: Car Charging went better, but it’s still a PITA. Plugshare for the win in terms of finding Level 3…

  • Acute inflammation after exercise is good (study)

    High intensity exercise can cause inflammation. The acute inflammation itself is healthy: it causes  Senescence – old worn out cells are replaced by healthy cells. Ibuprofen blocks this effect. Study: https://www.aging-us.com/article/205827/text Some reporting on this: https://gethealthspan.com/science/article/crucial-role-inflammation-exercise-cellular-senescence This is totally fascinating – it goes against the ideal that all inflammation is bad.

  • Most of cycling is Fashion

    There are a lot of folks who will tell you about the functional aspects of their bikes or kit (the clothing cyclists wear), but almost all of it is fashion. 1×12? Ask any fixie geek about her ‘gear range’ (and yeah, I was one for years) Aero socks? This is perhaps the most marginal of…

  • Out riding with Ms. M

    My wife and I got out for a ride this weekend – notable because we don’t ride together very often. She was a bit concerned about the traffic, our local freeways were all due to be closed. She also wanted to drive our bikes to a trail of some sort – stuck in traffic to…

  • Fixed my freewheel!

    I like to tinker. Rather than chuck my well loved White Industries freewheel, I opted to rebuild it. It’s not much work honestly, I did it in less than an hour. But it’s quite satisfying to do something like this – you don’t know quite how, but figuring it out and having things snap into…

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