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Off-Season Dreaming: Mrs. Pragmatic
Since the temperature’s plummeted and my bike has been relegated to the basement, I haven’t posted much. But lately I have the itch to plan the coming season’s adventures. Much to my surprise, Mrs. Pragmatic expressed that she was a little envious of my trips in 2024 and might like to try coming along! She’s…
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Off Season: Fixing the Gearing on my Kona Sutra
So let’s talk about gearing for a bit. I got back into cycling this year after a long absence, and really wanted to try camping and longer tours. I researched touring/adventure bikes and settled on the Kona Sutra. This bike shipped with a Shimano GRX-shifted 2×10 (2 gears in the front and 10 in the…
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GearAdvent Day 1: Go Time
OK so this journey started in March with a new bike and a commitment to get out of my chair and back on the road. Tomorrow morning starts the first real ride, 230-ish miles through The Driftless, southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin. I won’t post during the trip, but I hope to take a great…
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GearAdvent Day 10: Saddle
Something to sit on is definitely required. This Brooks B17 is one of the nicer features of the Kona Sutra, as Kona tries to outfit the bike for long tours right out of the box. The Brooks is a peculiar thing. 100% resistant to modernism, it’s a throwback to the earliest saddles. Some people swear…
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Couch to Camping 2024
It was summer of 1988. I was still a teen. I was struggling this old Cannondale up and down the hills in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. My cousin L. and I had decided to do a supported five hundred mile trip from Boston to Niagra Falls. I think we were not…
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