ride journal

Muddy Kanata — 2006-12-17

I went up to the Ottawa area to visit family a few weeks ago. I would have never thought to bring my bike (as it was nearing the end of November), but Ryan suggested a ride so enthusiastically I just...
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Hydrocut Video — 2006-09-11

A few months ago, my buddy Aaron and I treked into the Hydrocut to make a mountain biking video. The editing could have been tightened up a smidge in a few spots, and we have a lot to learn about...
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Call me Champlain — 2006-07-17

What is it about finding new trails that is so damn cool? I was at a local bike shop the other day and was asked if I had ever rode the trails at a certain intersection. Intrigued, I replied no, but...
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1-2-3-Action! — 2006-05-27

Monday was very a different sort of ride than what I'm used to; instead of just riding for fun, I was riding for the camera. My buddy Aaron, who is a professional cameraman, got the opportunity to...
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Crown land — 2006-05-09

I went to ride some new trails last night with Jimmy, one of the guys from work. The trails are on some crown land near Hwy 7 and Regional Rd 12. The trails were mostly doubletrack with a bit of...
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Maybe he misses his old glasses — 2006-05-02

It is a sunny spring day. Greer and I load up the bikes and our gear into my truck to go for a ride. This process takes a little while (of course there's chains to be lubed and brakes to be...
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My new riding buddy — 2006-04-18

Yesterday I went for a light spin along the Health Valley trail. I took my new iPod riding for the first time. Having music on the trail was great; some music just seems perfect for biking with dusk...
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Hydrocut in the rain — 2005-07-07

Me and my UW grad riding buddies went out for a ride at the Hydrocut earlier tonight. Once we got out on the trails it started to pour. The rain was pretty intense. The trails soon became little...
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Ack, my lungs! — 2005-06-08

I went out for a ride at the Hydrocut yesterday. [For those of you that don't know, the Hydrocut is the best trail network in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. It is located off Glasgow between...
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Racing at Hardwood — 2005-05-23

It was the summer of 2000. We had lived through the big Y2K scare and a new programme called "Survivor" was introducing the world to the plague know as "Reality Television." I had moved back...
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The First Ride of the Year — 2005-04-10

The majority of the new snow has melted in Orillia, it is a warm, sunny spring day and it is time to go for the first ride of the year! Our destination is a rail trail that runs between Orillia and...
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