Mountain Bike Oregon is a great mountain bike event in Oakridge, Oregon. Oakridge is a small town that used to be a booming timber town. Like many other similar towns in the Pacific Northwest, the lumber industry declined, lumber mills closed and the town’s economy was devastated. While Oakridge doesn’t have much of a logging … Read more
Stopped in White Salmon to pick up the mail and went for a ride at my old stomping grounds. The trails have dried out and gotten a little hard at the lower elevations and nice and grippy up higher. No mud anywhere, even the cattle mud holes have dried up. Even at midday, the summer … Read more
When your mountain bike doesn’t stop, which is a nice feature to have on a bike, it’s time to have a look at the brakes. Disc brake pads aren’t exactly cheap, so you try to get the most out of each set to the point where they don’t work very well anymore. Usually, if the … Read more
After more than a week of changing clutches, timing chains and head gaskets, I had enough of working on cars, so I headed down to North Bonneville, WA to check out the “Too Hot For the Streets” Car Show to check out some other guy’s automotive skills. It was a beautiful, sunny day and there … Read more
I have a 1990 Toyota pickup truck with about 135,000 miles on it that has run without any problems since the day I bought it more than twenty years ago. I’m a pretty decent mechanic, I’ve always repaired my own vehicles and built a few race cars, motorcycles and off road vehicles as well, so … Read more
How about this lunker walleye my brother Gary pulled out of Lake Erie off Cuyahoga County? He claims the biggest one got away……
Okay, lost the camera, waiting for a new one. It was a toss up between the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 and the Canon S95. I’ve been a Canon user for many years, still use my trusty 20D DSLR all the time, but I decided to go with the LX5 this time around. More on the cameras … Read more
Well, today when I went to download photos from a mountain bike ride, I couldn’t find my camera. The reason I couldn’t find it is because I set it on the roof of my truck when the ride was over and I drove away without taking it off the roof. Pretty stupid, but it happens … Read more
Summer is finally here and what a great day to start it off. Sunny and the low 80’s. The wind finally died for a few hours so we woke up at 2:30 AM and headed up to one of the high lakes. Not the highest lakes yet, they are still snow bound. Maybe next week … Read more
Looks like tomorrow morning the wind will be calm for a few hours so we must grab the opportunity to try and get a little kayak fishing in. I’ve got some photos from the North Bonneville Disc Golf Association Amnesia Open on Sunday and a couple photos of a new trail I came across today, … Read more