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📍Loveland, Colorado

Trolls on the InternetFinally got down to Breckenridge to say hi to Isak Heartstone.
19/10/2024

Trolls on the Internet

Finally got down to Breckenridge to say hi to Isak Heartstone.

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ME: Driving up US-24, outside Manitou Springs tonight, seeing this sign from over a half-mile away and exclaimin...
04/10/2024

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ME: Driving up US-24, outside Manitou Springs tonight, seeing this sign from over a half-mile away and exclaiming to my wife, “Holy s**t! Something awesome is happening with gravel up there!”

Nope, just a normal business - Ute Pass Concrete-Sand & Gravel, Inc. I. Still. Stopped. And I want that sign in my yard!

Helene left a devastating wake behind her last week in Northeast Tennessee - where I went to college - and in Western No...
30/09/2024

Helene left a devastating wake behind her last week in Northeast Tennessee - where I went to college - and in Western North Carolina - where my wife and I got engaged, and have spent so much time outdoors.

All over the southeast there is devastation, and all over the place there are ways you can help. Click the to see how!

Photo credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel

Pedal, Pickleball & Pours 
There’s a first for everything, and tonight it was stopping early on in the ride to help warm...
13/09/2024

Pedal, Pickleball & Pours 


There’s a first for everything, and tonight it was stopping early on in the ride to help warm Shannon up for her pickleball night. A few minutes of that, and then it was back onto the Loveland Loop with a stop at . đŸšŽđŸ„’đŸș

Flashback Friday - 2016. A descent I think about quite often
“Glen Cove is as far as they’d let us drive up due to weath...
30/08/2024

Flashback Friday - 2016. A descent I think about quite often


“Glen Cove is as far as they’d let us drive up due to weather, so I began my descent down Pikes Peak from 11,450 feet in snow with freezing rain and more rain ahead. Some beautiful vistas and strange sightings through wet glasses and chattering teeth, but made it safely into Manitou Springs.”

I can’t play it. Definitely needed a lot of help putting it together. But I sure can draw on it!!Headed out for Can'd Ai...
29/08/2024

I can’t play it. Definitely needed a lot of help putting it together. But I sure can draw on it!!

Headed out for Can'd Aid’s first-ever Ukulele Build Wednesday night at Rails End Beer Company: Craft Beer & Tap Room. The back room of the brewery was packed with plenty of willing volunteer, and those 60, freshly built and creatively designed ukuleles will now find their way to youth in the Broomfield area this week!

This is Can’d Aid’s newest volunteer opportunity, and the goal is to give young musicians a chance to explore music as an emotional outlet and to help encourage creative lifestyles. How cool is that?

Find out how you can volunteer at Can’d Aid’s next event - or maybe even host one of your own! https://candaid.org/

Finally explorin’ Fort Collins’ greenways.Thanks for the tour, !
22/08/2024

Finally explorin’ Fort Collins’ greenways.

Thanks for the tour, !

Heart’s (and belly) full after getting to see my friend, , for a Granby lunch stop on today’s travels west!
19/08/2024

Heart’s (and belly) full after getting to see my friend, , for a Granby lunch stop on today’s travels west!

Fancy that, a Colorado guy running into some OG GGOTers in Florida!Great to catch up with  and Lindsey at  in Apopka. Co...
17/08/2024

Fancy that, a Colorado guy running into some OG GGOTers in Florida!

Great to catch up with and Lindsey at in Apopka. Congrats on the move to the Sunshine State. Enjoy your return to that sandy gravel! đŸ»đŸ™ŒđŸŒ

What a fun gravel grind this would have been 
 Bought this undated postcard today in Loveland. It’s a look at what a gra...
05/07/2024

What a fun gravel grind this would have been 


Bought this undated postcard today in Loveland. It’s a look at what a gravel-covered US-34 - heading out of Loveland - looked like long ago, traversing through Big Thompson Canyon on the way up to Estes Park and on to .

Imagine that gravel ride, with the Big Thompson River roaring down from the Rockies JUST below your wheels, as you grind from 5,000 feet up to 8,200 to enter RMNP. đŸ€Ż

I’ve seen this sign every time I hang a left into Golden. Not sure what it means, but I finally have mom with me to get ...
23/06/2024

I’ve seen this sign every time I hang a left into Golden. Not sure what it means, but I finally have mom with me to get the complete picture of the “Corbinator & Mom!”

Ten Years Gone 🩄 If you’re going to have to climb the 24-percent grade Kent Street five times for the USA Cycling road n...
26/05/2024

Ten Years Gone 🩄

If you’re going to have to climb the 24-percent grade Kent Street five times for the USA Cycling road natties, might as well have a unicorn cheer you on. #2014

Photography. It’s kind of a Hobby. ✈
16/04/2024

Photography. It’s kind of a Hobby. ✈

I had two items on the agenda to try and get to during my very short time in Houston. First was the Houston Art Car Para...
13/04/2024

I had two items on the agenda to try and get to during my very short time in Houston. First was the Houston Art Car Parade. Second was taking in a Lone Star Series matchup as the Houston Astros played host to the Texas Rangers.

Unforeseen circumstances had me too late to make it back into town in time for the Art Car Parade, and I was too cheap ($50+ for the cheap seats) to pay watch roof-closed baseball alone.

So I combined the two: watching the baseball game five blocks away at Texas Tailgate Sports Bar Patio and drinking a Saint Arnold Brewing Company Art Car IPA. I avoid gridlock and get some tasty - not stadium prices - beer out of it.

Power of ThreeIt was a small yet productive turnout in Conroe, Texas, this morning for ’s cleanup at John Burge Park - a...
13/04/2024

Power of Three

It was a small yet productive turnout in Conroe, Texas, this morning for ’s cleanup at John Burge Park - a project made possible by the .

Five bags and 20 pounds of trash were collected - much of it micro trash. Micro trash is small enough to overlook, but it’s harmful to wildlife, can break down and become microplastics, and hurts the watershed among its many dangers.

Join me next Sunday in Denver as we do it all over again. It’s back downtown to Confluence Park to pickup trash - big and small - along Cherry Creek and the South Platte River.

Sign up at and check out other opportunities you have to join in at a Can’d Aid project and become a Do Gooder!

Devil’s Backbone - easier on foot than bike for sure.
14/11/2023

Devil’s Backbone - easier on foot than bike for sure.

What a flashback. Best of my recollection, today was my first “gravel” ride - 10 years ago (11.7.13) on an Iron Horse 26...
08/11/2023

What a flashback. Best of my recollection, today was my first “gravel” ride - 10 years ago (11.7.13) on an Iron Horse 26-inch MTB - doing laps around the gravel paths inside a Smyrna, Tenn., park.

Even though this park was right around the corner from the house, I don’t think I ever pedaled it again. Guess I was ready to travel for gravel from the jump. đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™‚ïžđŸ˜‚

When was your first gravel ride and what you were riding?

What I wish I was preparing for ↔ vs what I am preparing for.Monday’s the day I hope kicks off some return to normalcy ...
16/10/2023

What I wish I was preparing for ↔ vs what I am preparing for.

Monday’s the day I hope kicks off some return to normalcy for this arthritis-riddled body of mine as I go in for a total hip replacement.

A year that started off with promise has been sidetracked turn after turn with deaths, a business coming to an end, back procedures that still haven’t taken, my wife’s lingering pain that led to double foot surgery and a long recovery, a skosh of COVID for both of us, to discovering in June that my right hip was complete bone on bone.

I was already dealing with plenty of pain in my knees and back - and still am - so color me shocked when it was the hip that finally knocked me off the bike and has made life in general a chore all summer.

After a hip injection that didn’t work kicked the pain can down the road three months, and two other scheduled surgery days fell through, I can’t believe I’m actually looking forward to a Monday.

It’s past time to get this hip outta here. It’ll be the first step to hopefully getting my body back in some sort of working shape.

Here’s to hoping the recovery - despite the s**t knees, back, and a wonky neck laying in wait - will be a quick one and I can be back on a bicycle soon. đŸ»đŸ€žđŸ»

At least I’ll have some good books, good drugs, good dogs, and a great wife to take care of me.

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