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Trail of Death RambleSometimes you stumble across the coolest places when you're rambling ... I've been seeing signs marking the "Trail of Death", but I didn't know what it was all ...
Franklin County Rough Roads TourSoutheastern Franklin County, Kansas boasts a good number of minimum-maintenance roads. I've ridden them all before, but never all on the same ride. It's been a...
Tour of Rural FencesA "Tour of Rural Fences" seemed like a fun theme for a bike ride -- fences are easy to overlook, but it turns out that a lot of people take great pride in their...
ShakedownIn preparation for my upcoming mini-tour (Flint Hills Bike Tour On Tap) I wanted to get in a good test ride, fully loaded, just to make sure there weren't any m...
Wiener Dog Rescue ServiceOn Labor Day, I hooked up with Bill Poindexter (carfree American) for a ride on the Flint Hills Nature Trail. We started the ride off in Osawatomie, at John Bro...
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Archive for March, 2009
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On The Cusp of Spring
Posted on March 19, 2009 | 3 CommentsOn the last day of Winter, I got out for a nice long ramble — about 35 miles of Miami County gravel southeast of Hillsdale. At long last, you can really see that Spring has almost arrived. The grass is starting to green up, trees are beginning to bud, and... -
The Long Haul Trucker as a Mountain Bike
Posted on March 8, 2009 | 2 CommentsMy Surly Long Haul Trucker had its first taste of singletrack, and found it rather tasty. The LHT is not exactly a mountain bike, but it performed admirably on the trails at Dornwood Park and MacLennan Park in Topeka. These trails are more fast-and-flowy than technical, but there were still...