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Cruising the beaches of Clayoquot Sound

October 12, 2012

  Greetings from fabulous Clayoquot Sound. I’m writing to you from a beachfront hideaway, where, for the last 4 days, I’ve been trying to banish the distractions of the city and concentrate on writing. The former wish has been granted in full; as for the latter intention … these are the first words I’ve recorded. […]

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Thinking outside the box: Izhar Gafni’s $9 cardboard bicycle

October 4, 2012

Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni has a dream: to flood the world with cheap bicycles, made from cardboard. Undeterred—inspired you might say—by doubters, Gafni has taken his idea through prototypes that, he admits, looked and performed more like “a package on wheels,” to something that resembles a concept bike built with lightweight polymers. The latest iteration […]

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New tires for the Rocky Mountain Blizzard

October 1, 2012

My Rocky Mountain Blizzard came stock, in 1993, with Ritchey “Z-Max” tires—2.35″ “Megabite” wire-bead front, 2.1″ kevlar-bead rear. You can see them on the latest post-restoration photo; they’re still in good nick. On my “Three-Borders Tour” through the north, in addition to the knobbies, I carried a set of 1.5″ Avocet Cross tires, with inverted […]

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A ride on the Cowichan Valley Trail to view the Kinsol Trestle

September 27, 2012

The Kinsol Trestle opened to great fanfare one-year-ago, after a $7 million restoration project returned it to its former glory as one of the longest and highest wooden railway trestles in Canada. The 188-metre long, 38-metre high structure, originally built in 1920 to carry trainloads of lumber to market, spans the Koksilah River canyon near Shawnigan Lake. […]

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The Squamish hard core: a rainy rhyme

September 24, 2012

Huddled in the car, listenin’ to Morningside, on CBC radio ‘Idin’ from Squamish’s “eternal pissin’ rain” Me mate Frank’s face-down in the tent, ‘is ‘ead in a pot With a bloody whoppin’ migraine We was goin’ for the Grand Wall Planned to fix the bolts today Wouldn’t ya bleedin’ know it Summut would stand in […]

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Weathering the West Ridge of Pigeon Spire

September 21, 2012

An angry wind smashed into the saddleback ridge, stinging our faces with ice pellets. A gust momentarily lifted me from my à cheval position and dropped me back in place, as though I was indeed astride a bucking horse. “Lads, this could be a thigh-boner if we’re not careful,” I shouted into the gale. The […]

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