Mostly Bikes ⨯ Me

New Bike Day

1/16/2026

lumber, OTHER BIKES. In an effort to ward off the jet lag sleepies, we rode the Bromptons into Carpentras and grabbed a train to Nîmes to fetch our new cargo bike: A Larry vs Harry eBullitt from Morgan Cycles. The Bromptons are perfect for this sort of multi-modal journey, riding to a train station, then into the center of a destination. The cargo bike, however, could not take the same path back to Caromb as cargo bikes are disallowed on French trains. A couple lashing straps later and my Brompton was securely attached to the Bullitt’s front bed for its 60mi trip home. After 20mi or so, we swapped out the Bromptons and Jenn hauled her bike around for a while before handing it back to me. While the Cargo bike carrying a Brompton weighs about 100lbs, we found that on Low power it climbs hills a similar speed to an unloaded Brompton. Most importantly, it kept us out of the house, awake and active, all day. Note: The GPS trace only reflects the time riding the Brompton

New bag 200k shake down.

1/3/2026

The bike in Caromb lacked portage for longer rando, so I sewed up a new bag for it and brought it on this ride as a test run. I had a lot of black fabric, and a lot of random bits, so here they are. Many design elements borrowed from Dave Cain's beautiful work at Waxwing Bags. The ride itself was swell, though an old repetitive stress injury in my wrist flared up something terrible. I'll be rocking a brace for a few days.

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Jamestown & Carter Lake 200k

12/26/2025

I needed this one after bailing on Monday and those impossible cross winds. It seemed like everyone was feeling a bit "eh" after Christmas, but happy to be out there anyway. Sandy's had those BBQ pork + mac & cheese burritos, but I somehow missed them and ended up with ramen. Next time. Next time.

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Roggen 200km

12/6/2025

Barely got sleeted on at all. Only spent a few minutes discussing the "what if this gets worse?" abandon strategy and then it was over.

It snowed a bit

11/28/2025

"Maybe it's just some fog" It was not some fog. I guess I should've expected the snow at the end of November, at 9000ft. Though it only snowed heavily for a brief period, and fast descent off Pennock Pass meant I was down from the coldest altitude relatively quickly.