monkeymartian

I’m going to try and post a little more often now that I have a mobile device that I can post from. I’d like to post shorter entries with photos from my rides.

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I had a foggy, misty ride up Bayview early yesterday morning.  I planned on riding further to help prep for the Tour de Greenbelt, but the fog got thicker as I went. I climbed the hill on Bayview and turned around.  The water droplets condensed on the fibres of my wool jersey and eyebrows.  I [...]

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Missing something?  On my ride home today I found a still blinking LED tail light on the sidewalk in the Leslie & 16th area of Richmond Hill.  If you think it’s yours, drop me some email.  andrew [at] monkeymartian [dot] com.  I hope you made it home okay, it was pretty overcast this evening.

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I saw via bikelovejones that Rivendell is discontinuing the venerable built-in-Japan Atlantis framesets.  Photos of this bike re-ignited my interest in cycling, and gave me a whole new appreciation of classic steel lugged bikes.  In 2005 I purchased a Rivendell Romulus that uses cantilever brakes instead of sidepulls (hence it’s known as a Canti-Rom).  I [...]

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Well, we’re back from vacation from Bon Echo.  This was our second trip there, since 2007  and it didn’t dissapoint for car camping.  We still don’t have the means to transport our camping gear and bikes, so I had a little vacation from riding, too.  It’s nice to be home and back on the bike!  I’m still itching [...]

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