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The Chainring Chronicles: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009. 8220;There’s a feeling that you can only get from racing and finishing—the feeling of pushing yourself beyond what you’re capable of doing in training. It’s about achieving the ultimate physical accomplishment —and you can’t feel that on the sidelines.”—Ned Overend. On Saturday, March 21. Sioux City Velo revived and hosted. Consisted of two or three 22.7 mile laps which ended on a 200 meter climb to the top of 'Climbing Hill' that overlooks the town. R than I could have on that b...
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The Chainring Chronicles: April 2009
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Monday, April 6, 2009. Indie's Fixies and Singles. 8220;When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum somehow serves as quite a contrasting and ornate background for this congregation of elegant yet simplistic bicycles. Shortly thereafter, a dozen or more ...
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The Chainring Chronicles: January 2009
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. 8220;A cyclist can ride three-and-a-half miles on the calories found in an ear of corn. Bicycles consume less energy per passenger mile than any other form of transport, including walking. A ten-mile commute by bicycle requires 350 calories of energy, the amount in one bowl of rice. The same trip in the average American car uses 18,600 calories, or more than half a gallon of gasoline.”—Marcia D. Lowe,. The Bicycle: Vehicle for a Small Planet. By The Ventures, We Will Rock You.
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The Chainring Chronicles: March 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011. TdK Purple Wave: The Whole Way to the University of Sioux Falls. My biggest fear is that they will confuse me with another racer"- Claudio. The 2011 Argus Leader Tour de Kota™. Cruises the college and university campuses of eastern South Dakota from June 5–10. This year's six-day excursion along the back roads and byways of beautiful South Dakota finishes its 430 mile (692 Km) route at the University of Sioux Falls. These Champion System™. Email me). Ride one day or all week!
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The Chainring Chronicles: June 2009
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Sunday, June 28, 2009. Long Live the Blog! 8220;We might not learn cycling from literature, but by studying cycling’s appearances in literature we can learn what people know and feel about cycling.”—John Forester. No, the Blog is not dead…long live the electronic literary. 8220;The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”—Christopher Morley. 8220;Cycling provides all the big lessons in life:. Rocket rode her new Girly Surly (Cross Check) and I rode my hybrid.
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The Chainring Chronicles: May 2009
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Monday, May 18, 2009. Capo di tutti capi. 8220;One large bruise on the shin is even more. Characteristic of the ‘prentice cyclist, for upon every one of them waits the jest of the unexpected treadle. You try at least to. Walk your machine in an easy manner, and whack! 8212;you are rubbing your. Shin”—H.G. Wells. And that’s exactly the way it happened. My new ride arrives at my LBS. Meet my new ride, Double Stuff. As an ‘oreo’ (Greek root for beautiful or nice), it is twice. Monday, May 11, 2009. When the...
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The Chainring Chronicles: December 2008
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Sunday, December 28, 2008. They’re mounted and inflated! No more messing around on this ice…Continental Spike Claw Studded Mountain Bike Tires. Went for a very short ride today, just before sundown…what a beautiful day! I’m still not convinced that crashin’-n-burnin’ is that impossible with these tires. It just doesn’t seem right—riding on icy roads—but so far so good, not a single slip. The Mom-in-Law wants me to be safe on the ice so she got me protection for Christmas…check out the helmet. 8221; with ...
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The Chainring Chronicles: Supererogatory Excrescencies
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Sunday, June 27, 2010. There's something about getting grimy and sweaty with the gals. You feel like you're breaking the rules. You're not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. You're not someone's girlfriend and you're not someone's mother. For that moment, at least, all you have to be is a cyclist." - K. Grob. Rocket just completed the 2010 Bicycle Tour of Colorado. Traversing the Continental Divide four times in 470 miles! Tour de Wyoming 2010. Willpower and endurance are her super-strengths.
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The Chainring Chronicles: Vuelta a Margarita
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Sunday, September 12, 2010. 8220;The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don’t like the end-zone dance. I think that’s unfortunate. That feeling—the finish line, the last couple of meters—is what motivates me.”—Lance Armstrong. Of Vermillion, SD (formerly the Lane Hogs, Inc. Has once again provided a spectacular day and venue for an organized philanthropic bicycling adventure ( Margarita Ride IX. On the next ride you take, STOP. Dominic Gill- Sharing a Ride Across America ( Wilderness.com.
