Bicycle leaning against a wall with large 100 address numbers.


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Centuries are for the Birds

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December 30, 2022

I rode 100 centuries this year. Does that make me a cuckoo?

With twitching talons, the eagle comes, soaring high on private updrafts to wheel lazy circles across the ancestry of our dreams. Scanning the world unfurled far below for pinpoints of weakness, it traps the landscape sewn with…


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The Year of living SAG-ily

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January 3, 2022
Hey, kids, guess what? You can do a whole lot of living in 365 days. Do you know what else you can do a whole lot of in 365 days? Riding of the bicycles.


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Writing

Diesel.

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September 17, 2021

I don’t remember meeting him.

It just seemed like one day I was riding—either to or from work—and he was suddenly there. Riding next to me. Talking. It seemed like he’s always been there. Beside me. In front of me. Blocking the wind. Just…there.

Brad.

He was always up for Big Dumb…


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Brevet Asada aka Tour de Taco, 2017

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May 5, 2021
The first Tour de Taco, as it was then known, was held in May of 2010. Simple premise: ride to, and eat at, every Super Tacqueria IN THE WORLD.


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Music

MUSIC. RESPONSE. | “Untitled (Black is)” by Sault

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December 31, 2020

Twenty-twenty. The year that just kept on giving and giving and saying “open wider!” and shoving more shit in. Information, disinformation, bad news, bad opinion, hot takes, and impressive flameouts—it was a regular shit-giving fountain. But, just like it’s easy to ignore the one compliment in the comments and…


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MUSIC. RESPONSE. | “Rough and Rowdy Ways” by Bob Dylan

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December 30, 2020

Twenty-twenty. The year when hugging was outlawed, and I may have started talking a lot to my fern. What’s that you say, Fergus? Oh, you don’t like today’s record. Right, back in the cupboard. Please note for the record that Fergus the Fern has been purged from the voter…


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MUSIC. RESPONSE. | “Red Headed Stranger” by Willie Nelson

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December 27, 2020
Music is like a jangly set of keys to a secret door. I don’t care how tightly guarded your thought fortress is, or what secrets you think you’re hiding in that head of yours, as the Village People told us, you can’t stop it.
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DK and the Holy Grail

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January 17, 2020
The Gravel Grail signifies that you've finished the DK200 five times. As our Knight of the Round Slayble discovers, getting it is not as easy as it sounds.
Janeen McCrae
Santa Cruz, CA

Writer. Rider. This is where I collect the fruits of those two things.

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