No, despite the picture at the top, this month’s challenge is not going to involve biking to, and climbing up, a huge snow-capped mountain. I just wanted to post a picture from this morning’s bike ride. I was not only excited about climbing one of MY Town’s highest peaks–G2–but also, I was excited about announcing … Continue reading "THE MARCH CHALLENGE(S)"

To the common observer, one icicle is like any other icicle. Professional Icicologists like me, however, know there are many different kinds of icicles. In Minnesota alone, there are more than 40 different species. I’d like to share some of the ones I identified on today’s bike ride. Some species of icicle are more common … Continue reading "AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ICICLES"

I took myself across the land border into Napa County this afternoon in order to spend a couple of hours pedaling around the Carneros grape-growing region…. Read more at Bill Bikes

As they say, the way is the goal. Likewise, the challenge is the challenge. Yes, I believe it isn’t easy to think up new challenges for our entertainment every month. Here I would like to I offer my humble thoughts on the subject to our ever inspired, inspiring and untiring Czar Gregory. Encouraged by the … Continue reading "Have a Heart for Garceau"

I’m excited about this special day because there won’t be another one like it for a hundred years. And even then, it probably won’t occur on a Twosday. Also, there is a pretty good chance I won’t even be alive to celebrate 2/22/2122. As if the unique date wasn’t enough, the weather added even more … Continue reading "My 2/22/22 Adventure"

I know the LMNOP challenge is running out of steam. That’s OK, because Suzanne came up with a new challenge for February 22, 2022. Note all the twos in the date 2/22/22. The challenge is to ride your bike on that date and collect a bunch of pictures of ANYTHING related to the number 2. … Continue reading "LMNOPeteringout"

An auspicious date is coming up, whether you write it 2.22.22 or 22.2.22. Perhaps in honor of this day, we could all post some pictures illustrating the number two in some way. That is if the Czar agrees to this proposal. Went for a little ride today. It’s been very windy here the past days, … Continue reading "22222"

SINGLES: DOUBLES (Fun with M’s and P’s) TRIPLES FINALLY:

And just one picture for the elemenopedia, a Pile of Logs. This is so easy, there are piles of logs everywhere. But I stopped for these for my bicycle picture of the day. It seems the market for lumber is very good now and many more trees are being felled than usual.

After a couple of warm days, it’s pretty cold again here in Minnesota. And VERY icy too. It was so icy that I didn’t ride at all yesterday. Don’t worry though, I occupied my time with a dispute with Google over a post on my cooking blog. When I looked at the blog before posting … Continue reading "ELEMENOPEAbody Award Winning Post for Excellence in Cycle365 Journalism"

Brace yourselves for a Picture Overload. I didn’t just get N’s and O’s, but other letters as well, but my focus was on getting those letters that had been eluding me so far. There was kind of an inflation of P’s, I found them most easily. The pictures are from two different days, pretty sun … Continue reading "Getting My N’s and O’s"

I didn’t get out for a bike ride until just after 4:00 p.m. yesterday. I had a dental hygienist appointment first thing in the morning, followed by a couple more things I had to take care of. That’s okay, though, because the temperature got higher and higher as the day progressed. It didn’t quite hit … Continue reading "Two Day’s Worth of Elemenopeeosity"

I did a 3-day ride last weekend. Day 2 saw me pushing the bike about 90 percent of the time for four hours up and down rough and steep tracks. I don’t have a Pushing photo though – just video, so you’ll have to wait for my website post for that one. But I enjoyed … Continue reading "Pushing the bike A LOT"

I was too slow to answer Nancy’s post. I always need a bit of time for my thoughts to formulate. Nancy, I just wanted to say that I completely agree with your sentiments concerning the observance of Covid measures. I also understand your anger and disappointment that you don’t feel comfortable riding with the group … Continue reading "Oops! That page can’t be found."

I have a few more peeks at Minnesota L,M,N,O,P’s for you. Before we get to them, however, I have a weather report. Nine of the last ten days have begun with below-zero (F) weather. I’m a morning rider so I didn’t get to enjoy bike rides on the few days that got up to 10 … Continue reading "Elemenopeeks"

I’ve fallen behind on commenting on everybody’s posts (my duty as a truly benevolent Challenge Czar) after my monthly trip down to Iowa, but let me just say it’s nice to see a few folks taking the LMNOP and Heart challenge to heart. Today I managed to get my own February LMNOP pictures for the … Continue reading "Elemenopoeia"

My ride seemed to favor P’s and M’s. Not much to say about the ride itself. We rode a familiar route and passed the same sights as usual, still not wishing to veer off onto dirt trails through the woods that are now quite muddy. Muddy is actually the theme of the ride.

L-eaning M-y bike O-n P-ractically N-othing. Thanks to Bob I’ve learned a new trick. I had to try it out and see – and yes it really works, although I was dubious.

A new year and Corona is still with us. Not that the virus affects my winter riding much. It’s January again, and winter is what is holding us back. We had snowy days, wet days, windy days – and a few sunny days, too. However, it wasn’t quite as cold or snowy as last January … Continue reading "Cycle Days Challenge: The January 2022 Edition"

Thanks to our fine tech team, we’re back in business. Hooray! That’s the good news. The bad news is that, despite getting a couple extra days to think up a great challenge idea, I’m defaulting to a lame idea. Boo! Remember a couple months ago when I admitted I was running out of fresh ideas … Continue reading "ELEMENOPEE: The February Challenge"

Howdy Cycle365ers. Loving all the snow photos. Things couldn’t be more different here with not a drop of rain since mid December and none on the horizon. Around Christmas we scored a 44 degree Celsius day and a week ago we shattered our previous record of 4 days of over 40 degrees in a row … Continue reading "More chimneys and an Announcement"