Two Wheel Blogs

I hooked up with a diverse group today for a nice medium length ride between the rain storms. The common thread among this group was the will to enjoy a ride. There may have been other similarities among the riders, but none were as evident as the drive to ride (decent weather opportunities are hard to find this year).

It was a fun time, and everyone seemed to get what they wanted from the ride. I was feeling decent for a change, so I rode among three of the more spirited riders and we shared the effort and lodged playful attacks for a portion of the ride.

I took a few long pulls and rode myself inside out. Then tried to recover while not loosing the wheel of the other riders. It sounds silly perhaps, but it seems to get me in shape quickly.

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I have been playing around again with tires (it is sort of an ongoing story of my life).

I went out for a short ride yesterday (basically a 45 minute sprint/hammer session on the MTB). I wanted to try to test the limits of my tires, and possibly destroy them.

Some of you will recall that I do this sort of thing EVERY year. I put on some semi-slicks and start playing around with tires and formulate plans for the rest of the year.

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The new style of 2WB. What do you think?

2-old has been at it again tweaking, tuning, and dialing in the improvements for the site. Personally, I think it is pleasing to the eye. Hope you like it to.

I can not get this song out of my head since the changeover...

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I knocked the dust off my MTB today and took it out for the first MTB ride I can recall in a long time. The excessive rain this year (and ice storms last year) has had me riding road quite a bit, and I have not even thought of riding the trails until today. I was surprised at how good the trails were (only a few mud holes that always are present this time of year).

It was a great ride, made slightly better learning a few lessons in the process.

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The Tour of St. Louis kicks off today! Unfortunately, this year I am about as interested in racing as I am paying taxes. Sorry race fans, racing is great and I love to talk tactics, but I am just not feeling like competing this year.

I am however very interested in enjoying life, and I did a nice bit of that today. I went out for a little ride (solo) and not once did I feel like I wanted to be anywhere else. That is saying something, because lately I have been torn. It seems that I have been suffering from the grass-is-greener-over-there complex (every ride involves me daydreaming about things other than riding). It makes concentration difficult and training impossible.

Not so much today! I enjoyed the ride for what it was, and in the way every ride should be enjoyed.

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And now for something completely different...

Last night was a beautiful night. The temperature was perfect, and try as I may, I could not possibly describe the perfection of the evening (so imagine if you will the greatest central Missouri has to offer).

My wife, kids, and I had just finished a great meal and went for a short walk that was interrupted by my 3 kids stopping at the creek at the end of the street and doing what boys do for about 45 minutes (playing in the creek, stomping in the knee-deep mud, and crawling through coverts from one side of the street to the other).