Archive of posts filed under the cycling category.
“the nearest thing I have seen to being true”
A bunch of odds and ends cluttering my brain, blog posts that are half written in my mind that are in the way: Quoting Luis Villa on accessing the open data commons We’ve been talking about open data for a long time, but since using data is hard to consume and manipulate, open data has …
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Broken Arrow
Alternative blog post title: No Bad Days on the Bike In the picture above, you might be looking at the spot where the Air Force in 1957 accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on the mesa south of Albuquerque. Nuclear history nerds have dropped their Google map pins at a couple of places along this two-track dirt …
“Have fun. Learn a lot.”
Unrestricted access and use of open space lands by motorized vehicles has caused severe erosion; led to the creation of excessive dust, noise, littering, dumping, shooting, and vandalism in violation of county ordinances; and the deterioration of the publicly owned resources; and is hereby declared a public nuisance. Bernalillo County Code, Sec. 58-96 Having …
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The cycling trick in our linear north-south Rio Grande Valley is to match the Rail Runner with the wind. The best rides (where by “best” I mean “my favorite”) are in the valley, along the river and the ditchbanks that make up our ribbons of green. A wind out of the north calls for a …
Space Ghost
It is an accident that my new bicycle is named after a 1960s cartoon superhero who fought supervillains in outer space with a sidekick named Blip. Blip was a monkey. I was on my own Saturday, no help from Blip, when my Space Ghost led me up a “trail” on the west side of the …
I’m good, thanks for asking.
I got a couple of alarmed emails from friends after the last cryptic blog post, the one about how I can’t be broken. The post was aimed at a couple friends who I knew would get the reference. I forget that other people read this too, sorry. Your emails of concern made me feel loved, …
I can’t be broken.
2024 on the bike
My usual Sunday riding buddy was gone last week, so I took my road bike out for a longer-than-usual spin, out past the dinosaur sculpture I call “My Red Friend.” I got the requisite Blake’s breakfast burrito early (they’re the right shape to fit in a bike shirt pocket, and properly nibbled over time can …
Tacos and a bike helmet
The “plate of food with a bike helmet” is my favorite genre of Strava photo.