by Rivetress | Nov 27, 2017 | Blog
Mixtes. The sleek lines of a step-through bike with twin tubes that start at the headset and end at the rear hub are, in my opinion, the sexiest bike on the street. I happen to own a few mixtes, and am lucky enough to own a mixte from a variety of companies and...
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by Rivetress | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
I don’t quite remember how it started. This campaign. That’s what I call them. Campaigns. Campaigns to ride 1200 kilometers in under 90 hours, aka randonneuring. Among my friends we commonly say that we’re off on a ride of inappropriate distances. ...
by Rivetress | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
When this new year began I said I’d get back to blogging a bit about life on and off the bike. After the crash in January 2015, I spent the rest of the year getting myself through the injury. I dutifully followed Doc Hottie’s orders and spent the year healing. The...
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by Rivetress | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog
Tom’s email corrects me, “It’s not the RUSA K-hound 10,000k I’m after, it’s the R 10,000”. What is that? I want to know. It’s the accumulation of two full Audax Club Parisian series (200-300-400-600-1000k set of brevets), a 1200k, completion of Paris Brest Paris, a...
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by Rivetress | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
In May, I rode the Texas Stampede and while on the ride I spoke to a few Seattle rando-pals about London Edinburgh London (LEL), which I had gotten into by lottery. “Oh, you’d be crazy to ride LEL”, they said, “It rains the entire time.” “How do you feel about...
