@TheVid Nice. (That was me last year, after two decades off the bike. Riding makes everything better, doesn’t it?) »

Oh, wait, there’s like one road on Salt Spring Is. Ha, ha…nevermind. »

Any of you British Columbian Canadanians got any suggestions for rides or a place to stay on Salt Spring Island? We’re thinking of stringing some rides from the house to Port Angeles up the Sammich Peninsula and over to Salt Spring where we’d get a B&… »

@unversio How much for the tractor? @cantona Beautiful. I did a couple of rides in the Santa Cruz area in April. The climbing from Hwy 1 up to Empire Grade was kickass—gorgeous and sustained. »

Stokoe sounds way more disgusting than Pynchon. Disgusting English Candy Drill, anyone? »

@itburns Where else can you get infinitely deep knowledge of cycling, informed references to Greek mythology, and first-rate swearing? »

@frank A. Do you guys plan to have the video available on that channel after the event for our asynchronous sadistic pleasure? I ask because I’ve got a longish ride planned tomorrow and need to sort out my start and finish time requirements. B. I’m stil… »

@pistard I am truly, physically laughing out loud. »

@scaler911 In Portland, people would just take their clothes off in protest, and you’d damned well better have a big tub of brain bleach handy. »

@Buck Rogers PeakInTwoYears 39.6 »

@frank Oh, cripes. Sorry to hear about that. I have often reflected that a dog is like a large, fast two year old. With a powerful bite and a skull that’s stronger than the brain inside it (unless the brain is determining how to find that tasty-smellin… »

@frank Yes! This would kick ass! (New revenue stream for the site? Instead of “Jackass,” “Frank Kicks His Own Ass,” a monthly event.) »

@Harminator One way to experience “balance” is to cook and eat the meat of an animal that you shot and watched die, and that you cut into pieces with blood up to your elbows and carried out of the hills on your back and spent two nights butchering and p… »

I’ve been influenced by one of my (grown) daughters, who is a passionate student and practitioner of traditional Asian healing arts and Tibetan Buddhism. I’ve watched her go from a somewhat rigid (and temporary) set of food rules to a more flexible and ye… »

@kixsand No squash? That’s almost as bad as @brett’s vegetarian business. Welcome, from another recently-arrived. »

I’d be totally down with insect protein shakes in the morning, if the food scientists got on that. Which they won’t, until their corporate masters can patent the GMO bugs… »

If someone makes a conscious ethical decision to be veg, I’ll never say a bad word. If someone dresses the decision up in pseudoscience and then moralizes about it, I get cranky. Personally, I’m a meatasaur but a different kind than I was a few years ago… »

@G’rilla Winthrop area is so pretty, IMO. I keep driving through it on my way to the Pasayten Wilderness, and I keep wanting to plan a long summer weekend of riding there. Gotta add 2 more hours of driving from the Oly Pen, though. Looks like a killer ri… »

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SMP V Romin V fi'zi:k Whatever V Whatever…  We all know everybody’s taint is shaped differently.  But it’s still good to hear what people’s taints are telling them. And caveat emptor taintus, obviously. »

@Gianni Sweet. The story of the acquisition reminds me of how I got a gently-used Erickson in the late 80s. Stole it, rode it, loved it, and (fuck!) eventually sold it. Please keep us up to date on the narrative of your relationship with this ride. Not … »

Date/Time: 8th June 2013

Meeting at the Car Park near where I live which is free at VV to nine. We’ll then roll into town for a coffee stop at Empire State Coffee which serves the best coffee in Dundee according to the VMH. Then we ride all the way up to Cairn ‘O’ Mount at which point there are several options. For those with the legs it’s over the top and round a small loop before coming back over the Mount to then stop at The Clattering Brig for refreshments. Option Two is to ride up to the top, turn around and wait for those going over at TCB. The third Option is to just stop at The Clattering Brig and not take on the climb but I hope no-one chooses this option. Then the party of Velominati will travel back to the Car Park where showering facilities will be available at my place as well as some food before we walk a short distance for the recovery beverages. The long route climbing the Cairn ‘O’ Mount from both sides is about 170km. All welcome.

VLVV

snoov

Date/Time: 8th June 2013

Meeting at the Car Park near where I live which is free at VV to nine. We’ll then roll into town for a coffee stop at Empire State Coffee which serves the best coffee in Dundee according to the VMH. Then we ride all the way up to Cairn ‘O’ Mount at which point there are several options. For those with the legs it’s over the top and round a small loop before coming back over the Mount to then stop at The Clattering Brig for refreshments. Option Two is to ride up to the top, turn around and wait for those going over at TCB. The third Option is to just stop at The Clattering Brig and not take on the climb but I hope no-one chooses this option. Then the party of Velominati will travel back to the Car Park where showering facilities will be available at my place as well as some food before we walk a short distance for the recovery beverages. The long route climbing the Cairn ‘O’ Mount from both sides is about 170km. All welcome.

VLVV

snoov

Date/Time: 8th June 2013

Meeting at the Car Park near where I live which is free at VV to nine. We’ll then roll into town for a coffee stop at Empire State Coffee which serves the best coffee in Dundee according to the VMH. Then we ride all the way up to Cairn ‘O’ Mount at which point there are several options. For those with the legs it’s over the top and round a small loop before coming back over the Mount to then stop at The Clattering Brig for refreshments. Option Two is to ride up to the top, turn around and wait for those going over at TCB. The third Option is to just stop at The Clattering Brig and not take on the climb but I hope no-one chooses this option. Then the party of Velominati will travel back to the Car Park where showering facilities will be available at my place as well as some food before we walk a short distance for the recovery beverages. The long route climbing the Cairn ‘O’ Mount from both sides is about 170km. All welcome.

VLVV

snoov

Date/Time: 8th June 2013

Meeting at the Car Park near where I live which is free at VV to nine. We’ll then roll into town for a coffee stop at Empire State Coffee which serves the best coffee in Dundee according to the VMH. Then we ride all the way up to Cairn ‘O’ Mount at which point there are several options. For those with the legs it’s over the top and round a small loop before coming back over the Mount to then stop at The Clattering Brig for refreshments. Option Two is to ride up to the top, turn around and wait for those going over at TCB. The third Option is to just stop at The Clattering Brig and not take on the climb but I hope no-one chooses this option. Then the party of Velominati will travel back to the Car Park where showering facilities will be available at my place as well as some food before we walk a short distance for the recovery beverages. The long route climbing the Cairn ‘O’ Mount from both sides is about 170km. All welcome.

VLVV

snoov