TagsTagsToday’s ride: 51 miles, in exceptional weather. Low 70s, sunny, a bit windy but you’d be hard-pressed to label it “fascist.” The bike path was like a dangerous video game, with hordes of seemingly lobotomized Angelenos (all with their little white ear buds blaring) lurching unpredictably around like refugees from ...
Today’s ride: 48.89 miles, in weather so perfect for cycling the Gods of Wind wept in frustration. I heard them weeping. Or maybe that was the mountain biker who thought he could sit in my draft going north through Palos Verdes, just before I dropped him. Today was another climbing ...
Today’s ride: 46 miles, with a foggy start that turned quite warm by noon. Ever notice how easy it is to get out of the habit of doing things that cause physical pain? That’s how it’s been with me and hill climbing lately, so I deliberately went up a couple ...
Today’s ride: 41.04 miles, bringing the total for the weekend to 95.24 miles. It rained a bit last night and the weather today was excellent, with air about as fresh and clean as Los Angeles ever gets. But this was the Day of the Oblivious, with an amazing number of ...
Today’s ride: 54.20 miles, on a day that started out threatening to rain but got over it and turned into a great day for riding—partly cloudy, not too warm, not too cold. A bit windy, but not quite in the fascist zone; you might call it a Gramscian wind instead, ...
Today’s ride: 55.64 miles, south into the wilds of primitive Palos Verdes, rolling at a medium-hard pace through that Southern Californ-eye-aye sunshine. Did a training climb around the PV Country Club on a semi-secret route that’s fairly difficult (you don’t make it without standing on the pedals), but worth it ...
I wasn’t going to ride today, because the forecast was rain and I’m not that hardcore. (It isn’t the rain that bothers me, it’s cleaning the bike afterward.) But when it became clear that the almighty weatherbot had short-circuited again and the rain wasn’t going to materialize, I threw the ...