https://radriders.netlify.app/blog/Recent content in Blogs on RadRidersMTBHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USCopyright © 2021, jeffrey.Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/new-bike-day-specialized-rockhopper/Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/new-bike-day-specialized-rockhopper/Striking the balance I’ve been commuting to school and work since I was like 10 years old. Having somehow internalized somehow that the warming state of the world (and thus enshittification of the planet) rests somehow more on my shoulders than everyone else, I make it a mission to ride my bike to work sometimes to try to burn less gas. The whole thing is pretty farcical because my drive is roughly one-fifth the duration of the average person in the nearest major city and I often rideshare with my girlfriend since we live and work in the same place.https://radriders.netlify.app/rookie-trail-photographer/Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/rookie-trail-photographer/CONSUME CONSUME CAPITLISM It’s been disgusting weather lately around here. Luckily we live somewhere with a generally temperate climate, so there are about two-to-four weeks of too-hot, gross-and-sticky weather in the summer and those are occurring now and I hate it. I hate heat so much but that’s a topic for another day. (Related: I really hate the idea that the planet is getting even warmer, it already sucks as it is.https://radriders.netlify.app/mixed-bag-1st-edition/Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/mixed-bag-1st-edition/My brain thinks in small chunks. People (actually search engines) want these big, long, well-thought-out and well-written articles and goodness me, I’m just not prepared to provide that. So instead this is the first of what will probably be a never-ending string of “Mixed Bag” sections because they are easier. The internet also needs more of me, there is way too much everyone-else out there and I find it overwhelming.https://radriders.netlify.app/free-inner-tubes/Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/free-inner-tubes/Everyone loves free crap, we can’t help it. We know that there’s got to be a catch but we soak it all up anyway because heaven knows when we’ll get free stuff again. Recently I put in an order with a reputable online cycling store for a few things that I’d been considering for a while. The commuter bike has been getting flats somewhat regularly lately since for some reason the glueless patches we’ve got don’t seem to want to hold.https://radriders.netlify.app/upgrade-one-by-conversion/Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/upgrade-one-by-conversion/Rationale My full-suspension mountain bike has been serving me well for about seven years now. She’s a 2013 KHS 6500 with a 2x10 transmission. Translation: Two chainrings at the front and ten speeds at the back. Living in Ontario I find that I rarely change the front gear to the smaller chainring unless I am in a few specific regions where I know there are a lot of short, punchy climbs that need a bit of granny gear to get to the top.https://radriders.netlify.app/hidden-gems-lower-jurassic/Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/hidden-gems-lower-jurassic/Since the pandemic brought normal life to a crushing halt 15-ish months ago, people flocked in droves to outdoor sports where they could get away from the gross moist exhalations of their fellow man. And since it’s 2021, their fellow woman as well. To this day there are probably like three times more people on the trails than before the pandemic. At one point I thought I wanted this, but it turns out that no, I don’t.https://radriders.netlify.app/looking-better/Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:36:15 -0400https://radriders.netlify.app/looking-better/Alright, we’re starting to get things looking a bit more like home. Things are looking really good for the future of RadRiders. Yesterday we sat down as a team and brainstormed a hundred possible ideas for blog posts. They aren’t all good, and a lot of them were just a random blurting out of words, but a number of them are worth getting excited for. In numeric order, here are a few of the gems that will probably be rejected:https://radriders.netlify.app/its-a-blog-and-it-works/Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://radriders.netlify.app/its-a-blog-and-it-works/Radriders is a blog again! So now we can all just forget about all this shit and go ride bikes. No wait, don’t. At least, not yet. Doo-dee-doo. Thanks to the smart people down at Hugo, I’ve been able to spin up this blog. Now I have a place to froth my ideas and thinkings where it’s not just taking up precious space in my head. Since I was really expecting to do this, I have no real thoughts to expel so let’s just carry on our days like this never happened, deal?