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The winter-bleached dumbass behind
Bicycles and Icicles riding Mack Ridge, Fruita, Colo.
May, 2005

Most memorable
bike-related moments of 2005

Riding The Edge Loop outside Fruita, Colorado
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The kick-ass fun of descending
Moab's Porcupine Rim
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Missing two weeks of riding in June—JUNE!—after surgery
to repair an injury
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Hearing Sue say, "That's a big fuckin' bear!"
beside Campbell Creek,
and looking up to see that she was right
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Unlocking the secret to a previously unrideable (for me)
section of singletrack on the 24 Hours of Kincaid
course, and then cleaning that section the rest of the summer
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Riding through the high-country fog
near Lost Lake on the Kenai Peninsula
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Descending Primrose Trail and
recovering from all the near-crashes on wet roots
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The helmet-cam videotaping session
up and down Powerline Pass and Llama trails
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Riding Mack Ridge outside Fruita while getting punchy,
and realizing for the first time
how my new full-suspension Epic is
The Master of Savin' My Ass From Disaster
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The roller-coaster contours of Upper Spencer Loop
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The mental image of my white bike frame against the blue sky
as I crashed on the down-slope side of Mary's Loop
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Hearing the woman behind me on Mary's Loop ask,
"Did you wonder how far
you'd go before you came to a stop?"
and me answering, "Um, yeah."
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The wonders of carbide-tipped, conical studs
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Starting a blog about bikes
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Bicycles and Icicles in 2005