This winter in the midwest -- for the whole continent of North America, really -- has been remarkable.  It's difficult to tell if this i...

Man, I've wimped-out HARD since the last 200km winter-epic-slaughterfest-horrorshow that had been the December 2013 edition of R-1,000...

I t's been an especially cold winter season so far in east-central Kansas so far, to the chagrin of many an all-season cyclist, me inclu...

Glen, Steven and I headed out into a dangerously cold morning yesterday, and came home with a finish.  I have never been so cold, for so lon...

Well, yeah... as I sit back and chill on the afternoon before a company day-off, with the sun dipping, the shadows lengthening, and my after...

I mean well, I honestly do.... but, it's time for me to get real (again).   This blog isn't a full-time gig.  I don't make a d...

Weather-wise, the hammer has fallen in the KC-area. The last couple weeks have seen some dips into the teen's for HIGH temperatures, ...

     F irst off, even typing the title (the parenthesized bit) gives me a smile and a shrug of personal disbelief:  it didn't SEEM...