Author: jbo

I’d Do That Again

When that epic ride is over. When just enough weeks have passed that you don’t remember the pain and wear your body was feeling. That’s when it’s time to revisit. Replay the ride in your mind. Flip through the pictures you snapped along the way. Read your ride summary. Text with your ride partners to […]

A PR’s Purpose

A PR’s purpose is to taunt youto set the barto keep you in the pain tunnelone second longerten seconds longerlonger than you thought possible. Because a PR’s ultimate purpose is to fall. Dusting off my Sunglasses | Ride | Strava

Kids these days

We didn’t have YouTube, we had MTV. We didn’t have Facebook, we passed notes. We didn’t have Amazon, we had the mall (and the occasional mail order via COD). First CCBC ride of 2019 | Ride | Strava

Songs to Blast …

… when you’re flying down the road with a big fuck it to everything. saw things so much clearer once you were in my rearview mirror and now I look a fool for thinkin’ you were on my side i was tired of my own voice climb up on a hilltop see what i can […]

My Camera Couldn’t Stop Taking Pictures

There are those rides where when I get done and look at all the photos, the Bono line comes to me, “‘m I buggin’ you? Don’t mean to bug ya.” But then I go ahead and drop all the photos in the ride report anyways. When my camera shutter button is broken, it means I’ve […]

Part Lazy, Part Determination

When we left Hwy 2 on the final push for Steven’s Pass, my Garmin showed 67.7 miles & an elevation of 2,224 feet. When we encountered the landslide covering the road, my Garmin showed 72.2 miles and 3,447 feet. There was zero hesitation. We dismounted and climbed over … to find a second landslide immediately […]

Street Dumb

“He will die from the sincerest of greetings to the wrongest of people.” Reb, on Aydin I remember a summer during college, when a group of us were up in NoVa, heading into DC. We stopped at a McDonald’s, where I gave a nod and a “hello” to a boy leaving the bathroom. When we […]

Biker’s Bible

“Idle legs are the Devil’s workshop.” Pedalverbs 16:27 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to peloton, a time for asphalt, a time for gravel, a time for dirt,and a time for mapping out the next ride.” Cyclesiastes 3:1-8 Zigzagging My Way to 55 | Ride […]