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…
Rhodes HQ – The Original
I refer to Mia and my home here in Oregon as Rhodes HQ. I’ve even tagged it in Facebook and use it as my “location” when posting things from home. The original Rhodes HQ, hell the center of the Rhodes Universe, is in Bow, NH. Today Paul sent me the listing that it is for…
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…
Hell of the North Plains v3
The folks over at Our Mother the Mountain (OMTM) sent word out for the first official “unofficial non-event” gravel ride of 2018, The Hell of the North Plains v3 loop was on tap. Pretty much the first half of this loop was the same last last year, but after we started the climb up Strassel…
ON & OFF RHODES 