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Remember 7/11
I've long been a fan of the comic strip "Frazz," by Jef Mallett. Mallett is an avid cyclist (and very competitive triathlete, if I recall correctly) and he frequently works bicycling into his comic...
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We Have Identified the Virus - And It Is Us
How long after the Covid 19 pandemic ends will we still be finding discarded masks littering the ground?It's probably an impossible question to answer, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing them for a...
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An Early Morning Ride
I haven't had a lot to post about lately - this summer has had me off the bike quite a bit for various medical things, minor surgeries, and other procedures - Nothing too serious or alarming - but it...
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Biking Historic Virginia - part 1
I had mentioned in my last post that the family and I would soon be taking a vacation trip - and that's exactly what we did. We made a drive from Ohio south to Virginia, where we would be spending...
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Biking Historic Virginia - part 2
If you read the previous post here in the blog, then you know that my family and I spent about a week in eastern Virginia, soaking up history in a part of the country that's just steeped in it. Well,...
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An Invitation to the Undertaker
Okay - I'll start this off by pointing out that this isn't exactly going to be a typical retro-grouchy, vintage-bikey kind of post. There won't be any pictures of lovely old bicycles, or photos taken...
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Saddle Relief
Well, I finished my test period on the Brooks B-17 Imperial, or "Carved" saddle. I'd put several thousand miles on the saddle in that time, but when the year-long test period was over, I was actually...
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Rolling Coal - Open Season on Cyclists
If you want to kill someone - and get away with it - it would be hard to find a better way to do it than to get the person on a bike and run them down with your car. Cynical?Maybe so - but...
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A Milestone
This blog just reached a milestone - and I missed it!A couple of weeks ago, apparently, I hit 3 million visits to The Retrogrouch. Understand that I'm the kind of person who gets a little kick out of...
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