The Fastest Slow Guy You Know

Paul Price and Greg Williams There's fantastic coverage of the Made Bike Show out there.

A poster created for the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter Last month's Pony Express Bike Camping Overnighter was so fun, I decided to do the August overnighter that California Travis convened, the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter.

Shelly Horton has given me permission to publish this retelling of Eddy Merckx's 1969 Tour de France, originally published in the email newsletter she produces with her husband Brett, 1K TO GO, using photos from their Horton Collection.

Once before, an issue of the "1K To Go" newsletter from Shelly and Brett Horton, who maintain the Horton Collection, was so interesting that I wanted to share it, but couldn't, because the newsletter is email-only, so Shelly gave me permission to share it…

I love going on bikepacking trips.

LOST ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS.

I volunteer with NICA, training coaches and working with the league to put on races.

Riding the Oregon Cascades Volcanic Arc (OCVA) bikepacking route to Bend, Oregon My bike, just before I rolled out About to to roll out, mile zero Yes, I had anxiety.

OCVA to Bend, day one Camping with Jev and Grant Tapatio, for my breakfast of biscuits & gravy I shared some water with Jev and Grant, enough so that they could have coffee.

OCVA to Bend, day two Climbing NF-700 in the AM, back to solo NF-700 panorama We all agreed we'd detach.

OCVA to Bend, day three I don't know why, but a Superchunk song, Tower kept looping in my head, specifically these lyrics: I have my days for sure But I don't count them Our free time is our wealth.

OCVA to Bend, day four This would be my fourth day of riding all day on no sleep, and I'd really done myself a disservice by taking a second dose of diphenhydramine at 2:30 AM, four pills total.

OCVA to Bend, day five Three-Fingered Jack Love Bigger We got to the big hall, where breakfast is served at 8.

Dan announced to some of us that on June 13th he'd ride the East Bay portion of the Bikepack the Bay route, used for a bikepacking race starting and ending in Fairfax, lapping the San Francisco Bay.

I picked a Saturday/Sunday in the middle of May for this month's BAM.

My friend and neighbor Bobbi knows that I've been researching the Holy Names University property near where we both live.

I georeferenced this map, from the Oakland History Center of the Oakland Public Library.

Descending on singletrack from Gudde Ridge, IYKYK April was a challenge to my project of sleeping outside, once a month on a bike ride, AKA Bivvy A Month, or BAM; weather, travel and other commitments meant I only had a few days where I could squeeze one…

My Hudski Dualist, leaning against a tree on Bolinas Ridge Background I started bikepacking on a mountain bike.

My friend Sol wrote: And just throwing this out there - a bucket list ride for me is to do the Indians Road loop around the third week of March, which should be a stunningly beautiful time of year.

I'm part of a dumb bike club called dfL.

Back in June I spent a night on Bolinas Ridge, near the northern of two picnic benches .

Genealogy Othniel Young, 1758-1846 was my 5th great-grandfather.

PIONEER DAYS.

I found this Trail Map, Oakland Park Department in newspaper archives, on newspapers.com.