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Cycling letters
March 7, 2014The distances of the first races made them very elitist – the longer you make a race the less guys that start – originally Bordeaux – Paris was considered as the greatest classic alongside Paris – Roubaix even if only 15 -20 guys started. Over the years races have got shorter and shorter. (A letter from Nathan Dahlberg…)
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Cycling letters
March 5, 2014One guys puritanical attempt is another guys natural state. I never really had the need for a bed, I can sleep on the floor but I do like good food, on the other hand don’t need good food – ie what many would consider impossible conditions I am comfortable with. (A letter from Nathan Dahlberg…)
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Cycling letters
March 3, 2014Probably they weren’t unfriendly but they also probably also didn’t see any comradeship between themselves and me; after all, in this cycling is the new golf era recreational cyclists are a dime a dozen. (A letter from Nathan Dahlberg…)
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Gear Briefs
February 8, 2014These are some notes on pieces of gear I’ve used and liked over the last six months, including the Giro merino polo and ride jersey, Challenge Parigi-Roubaix clinchers, Clemenet LAS clinchers, Search and State S1J Jacket, and an alcohol stove.
Recollections
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Cycling to Machu Picchu
November 18, 2011I did not want to go to Cusco and backtrack, nor did I find the usual way aesthetically appealing at all. I contemplated skipping it altogether.
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First Bikepacking Trip
November 24, 2010We were simultaneously conceiving and articulating and inventing the constraints of our ambitions, our florid naivete and ignorance so deep that it swallowed even the possibility of a suspicion that there were crucial things we didn’t know.
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Racing in Pakistan retrospective
August 22, 2009In 2006 and 2007 I raced road and mountain bikes in Pakistan, first as a member of an American team and then on a Canadian/American composite team. The races were to keep world attention on the devastating earthquake that struck the north of the country on 8 October 2005.
