My Blog

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Sep

Mountain Bike Racers are Gnarly and Tough. I've been fortunate to be trail side at this summer's slate of high school mountain bike races  thanks to my granddaughter Ellie. She's on the Sprocket Rockets, a development team for Brighton High School where she'll be a freshman next year.  That's her leading the way at Snow Basin. She's fast.   She doesn't win every race, but she's always in the top five or six in the advanced Junior High girls.  They're a competitive, focused group.  Once they don

2018

22

Aug

From two wheels to three with a recumbent trike. My search is over.  From now on, I'll be rolling along Utah's cycling routes on a three wheel recumbent trike in the form of a fluorescent orange Catrike Expedition.  I began my quest for a new ride when waning balance and agility made riding my two wheel carbon fiber Cannondale Synapse a bit risky.  I had originally looked at a step-through frame Scott E-bike, or a three wheel recumbent E-trike.  The "E" stands for electric.  My new ride

2018

14

Jul

The time has come.  An aging spinal cord injury has me looking at alternative wheels to get me down the road.  For the last four decades, I've been pedaling hither and yon on some version of a bicycle--Schwinn, Raleigh, Specialized, Giant, Cannondale, and so on.  Ever since my broken neck and paralysis, cycling has been my therapy, my exercise, my freedom.  I walk like a wounded duck, but once mounted and clipped in, I ride pretty well.  Not far and not fast, but I ride.  The problem is,

2018

08

May

I made it.  I'm back on the bike after a long, challenging winter.  This time it was tougher and more profound than ever before.  Time is taking its toll on my body thanks to my 46 year-old spinal cord injury. Hip flexors are weakening and balance is waning in spite of daily workouts.  Fortunately mind prevailed over matter and I willed myself back on the bike, clipping in and riding eight miles on the Legacy Parkway bike trail  with my good friend, fellow bicycle junkie Joe Walker.  He's been

2018