Rich Aucoin

So today I understood how much it can suck to have the wind directly aimed at you all day. The speedometer, which, if you remember, broke in Borden, could not tell me my exact speed but, I figured, I was going about half the speed I normally bike at because of the wind. Today marked […]

So, either I’m psychic or I’m writing this blog a little delayed but this was the only day of the prairie biking where I had the wind at my back (which was unfortunate as I chose to go west to east to use the trade-winds to my advantage)! Today was filled with easy biking and […]

Today I realized that this trip is one of the best times of my life because, as there are some parts of the day that do rate high on the suckage meter, it only makes the parts that are good that much more awesome; I really, really enjoy the little things like a good shower […]

Today I finally unpacked the eagerly awaiting iPod from my bag and began listening to music and boy did I ever listen to music! You Left Saving The Planet definitely worth checking out if you’re an Arcade Fire fan as the guy is a one-man-fire-in-a-place-of-videogames; quite enjoyable. Big Eye: Little Eye by The Golden Dogs […]

C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.Han Solo: Never tell me the odds. It felt like doing just that while leaving Edmonton; rocks, rocks and more rocks. More rock than if Sabbath covered a Zeppelin song. With the new wheel too, it added some pressure to navigate […]

Edmonton was another whirlwind with three performances at an art gallery, CBC performance space (which was an interesting performance mid-day at CBC in this downtown mall), and the festival show at the Velvet Underground (with a little Cadence Weapon upstairs at the Starlite which was pretty nice since I didn’t get to catch his show […]

So… things break and my bike is a thing and so I guess, by this logic, it would need to break at some point, which it did today. The spoke situation got worse until, eventually, the wheel was just rubbing right into the bike’s frame and not doing the whole “moving forward” thing. Luckily, after […]

Calgary to Lacombe was a long trek (for those of you looking on the map, it’d be a nearly impossible bike ride without the help of my sis driving me some of the distance). But, despite having this automotive boost, it was still one of the longer bikes at 120k (with some fun off-roading at […]