Riding out in the Yamhill hills the other week with Mark was so much fun that I asked Mia if she wanted to go explore some of the area this weekend. The weather forecast was looking killer after a little bit of snow and ice last week followed by a fair amount of rain this…
Category: Rides
Yamhill Gravel Exploring
Presidents Day is one of those holidays that a lot of us government employees get off, but not necessarily everyone else. I had tried to get a group of us together for a ride that Mark had planned out of Yamhill, OR. Unfortunately injury, weather, children or weather made it so that just Mark (Bogie)…
Snowman Snow
I wasn’t sure a Stub Stewart snow ride was going to happen this winter. It has been a very mild winter so far. I was riding in knickers and thermal jersey two weekends ago. However that all changed this weekend. The temps were dropping and the rain has come in. There has been a “winter…
I Should Know Better
The working title for this blog post during today’s ride was “Fucking Skyline”. My mom reads this though, so I thought of something a bit more appropriate (sorry for the F-bomb mom). Anyways let me start with the forecast, which the weather peeps totally blew today. Everyone was expecting showers in the morning and perhaps…
Road Riding
There is a reason this is ON and OFF Rhodes. When Paul and I originally started riding bikes a bit more seriously I was “On” and Paul was “Off” Rhodes. My first bike was a Cannondale Criterium (5.0 I think) back in 1989 and Paul’s was a Schwinn High Sierra (I think). We both were…
Crown Zellerbach Trail
I’ve been wanting to ride the Crown Zellerbach Trail for some time now. However I always wanted to do it as a loop from home and come back down the Banks Vernonia Trail for about a 100 mile mixed surface ride. I couldn’t bring myself to just drive out to Scappoose just to ride the…
ON & OFF RHODES 