It’s Eddy Merckx’s 65th birthday today; the greatest cyclist of all time. If he could ride 30,000 miles a year, I can get out and ride up and down the local mountain. Almost the first day of summer but it seems more like the first day of spring. The sun was in and out of … Read more
Finally, a nice couple of days to go riding, so up into the hills we go. Even though it’s the middle of June and 75 degrees, there are still patches of snow. Still plenty of snow up on Mt. Hood as well. With all the snow and warm weather, avalanche danger is pretty high. No … Read more
The record rainfall here in the PacNW has really put the damper on late spring and early summer. Seventy degree, dry days have yet to come in any quantity so whenever the rain stops you have to take advantage of it and get out there. When the rain is heavy, it takes two or three … Read more
When people in the PacNW complain about the rain, you know it’s really raining. Record rain in May, first week of June looks to be all rain, kind of sucks for everyone who likes to be outside. All the more reason when there are a couple nice days, you get out there! The rain makes … Read more
Starting to think that the nice summer weather is starting to replace the cold spring rain; a beautiful day today, no better place to be than out in the woods. The spring weather can be pretty gloomy around here, but the rain leaves everything green and the streams and rivers running at full volume. The … Read more
This time of year it can be sunny and warm one day and raining and wet the next. Slowly but surely, the mud becomes nice, firm ground and the trails are just about perfect for riding. The grass is lush and green so the local rancher let their cattle out for maximum feeding. Many of … Read more
Finally got all the editing and encoding done; the videos of the 1994 NORBA National Championships at Big Bear Lake, California are the first installment of MTB Theatre section of the WatermanAtWork.com website. These video clips are from the glory days of NORBA mountain bike racing. Tomac, Overend, Furtado, Juarez, Giove, Lopes, King and more … Read more
Last weeks snow storms have made early spring bike riding a little tough. With the trails either muddy, snowy, or both, the best bet was to get out on the road between storms. The roads have been damp with snow on the sides of the roads at the higher elevations and you had to endure … Read more
It’s been raining and snowing off and on so the trails are still really wet and muddy. Days like this; taking the road bike out is a better bang for the buck. I live in a hilly area, on top of a pretty big hill, so every ten mile ride is a pretty good workout. … Read more
It has been raining, snowing and hailing off and on for the past week or so. Yesterday I managed to sneak out in between storms and get a ride in. There is a lot of water in and on the ground, the trails were mostly wet, muddy and slippery. Water was running strong in every … Read more