Ain't No Pillion

Now that I have the new bike, I’m raring to ride. Got up really early yesterday so I could get some work done and we could go ride. I was shooting to go on the “Ice Cream Ride” in New Hampshire that a local Beemer rider told me about, but couldn’t finish my work/eat breakfast/get [...]

We’ve had two immediate goals for bike rides in the near future – trying out a long day on the road for me, and riding someplace and camping. Unfortunately, by the time we figured out the weather would be good for the weekend of June 26/27, our dig sitter was unavailable, so we were’t able [...]

Saturday was a lovely day, so Masukomi and I hit the road on the bikes so I could log a longer day in the saddle. We explored various options for destinations, but since the longest day I’d done previously was around 120 miles, I didn’t want to triple that number (we were looking at places [...]

Today was another beautiful day in Boston, and I need practice riding, so I worked in the morning and headed out on the bike around noon. My original plan was to ride up to Singing Beach at Manchester-by-the-Sea, but I chose a route that took me past Revere Beach on Massachusetts Route 1A, and while [...]

Had a crazy project to finish last week so didn’t get a chance to get on the bike AT ALL. Sad. Yesterday, a friend of mine in Arlington put together a cookout, so I rode the bike up to Dom’s in Malden (an extremely kick-ass butcher that has some of the most awesome meat known [...]