Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Training, tagged cycling, santa clarita on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another cyclist and I pulled a 2006 Paris-Roubaix today, by crossing over the train tracks, opposite ways, as the gates were coming down. We both kind looked at each other and figured what the heck.
Dude on Placerita Canyon near Masters College riding the PINK (yes I know that pink was the color of the former [...]
Posted in Training, tagged cycling, Cyclocross, socal cyclocross on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the couple of you out there that regularly check in, and might be wondering what happened to me, here you go. The short story is that I haven’t been on a bike in almost 8 weeks. Not by choice, but because of a pinched nerve that has made it impossible to even sit on [...]
Posted in Cyclocross, Training, tagged american classic, cycling, Cyclocross, cyclocross wheels, lemond poprad on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been riding the American Classic 420 wheels for years now, and found them to be very dependable and fast. Not overly quick, but fast. However I have always ridden them as they are intended to be ridden, on the road. This season I thought I’d try something new, and put them on the [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Training, tagged cycling, Cyclocross, family cycling, kids, rapha, Training on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had Saturday all planned out. I’d sleep in a little, maybe until 8am, go for a good climbing ride (about 45 miles with decent elevation gain), and then get home before the Notre Dame Game at 12:30pm. As I was getting ready to leave, my wife informs me that she is taking the kids [...]
Posted in Training, tagged assault, cops, cyclist, denver, red light, teeth on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is the world coming to? From a statement from the guy that actually video taped this event, it is questionable whether or not this cyclist even ran the red light. The two detectives in plain clothes assault him. I doubt he even knew they were cops. But taking a guy down, handcuffing him and [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Training, tagged bike crash, bikes vs. cars, cars and bikes, cycling, santa clarita, six flags magic mountain on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I took my cyclocross bike out this morning for my first ride since getting hit by a car on Saturday. It has been 4 days, and I have a few observations.
After looking at my helmet again I realized that I did in fact fall on my head too. Which might explain the several waves of [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Training, tagged bike crash, bikes vs. cars, cars and bikes, cycling, magic mountain, santa clarita on August 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I guess I was due. I mean I hadn’t been taken out by a car in years, so the fact that a kid in a Nissan, going to work at Magic Mountain on Saturday morning hit me was no real surprise. There I was, moving along at 22 miles per hour, on the shoulder of [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Training, tagged Bikes & Gear, cars, cycling, road rage, santa clarita on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I just got back from a recovery ride in 97 degree weather. On my way back home, I was stopped at an intersection for approximately 4 minutes. During this time, a full sized Chevy (might have been a Dodge) pickup was stopped next to me. I certainly knew he was there, [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Road Racing, Training, tagged crash, cycling, helmet, santa clarita, Training on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After being relieved from jury duty the day before, I was anxious to go out on my morning training ride, even if it meant doing sprint intervals. While heading down San Fernando Road, I came across something we don’t see in Newhall/Santa Clarita, two young “hipsters” on fixies. I’ve gotta say, it was encouraging. It [...]
