I got out today for an hour and a half. That would be the first ride of any consequence I’ve been on in four weeks (I wore actual lycra & brought food with me). To say I need more of that in my life would be, well, obvious. Tubs ‘o fun needs saddle time. If [...]

Today is an important day around here at DC. Last year on this day I wrote a post  in honor of my friend. I decided that I am going to re-post it every year on this date as long as I am able. It just seems like the right thing to do. Whether you decide to [...]

After 10 days of partying and a bunch of time sitting still in airplanes, I made it back home to the desert a shattered shell of a man. To use a new term I picked up from my Irish brothers ”I’m in pieces.” I used that idle time on the plane to recover and to start going through [...]

Singlespeed Worlds 2011 is in the books. Local Irish boy, Niall Davis won for the men. And friend of DC and all around shredder,Heather Holmes won the women’s race. The trails were really fun, which almost made up  the fact that there were no beer or whiskey aid stations on course. We were moving a [...]

Between the riding, surfing, sleeping on the ground, and the hangovers…I’m beat. I don’t have much to say, but I do have a few pics to share. I ran into some DC representatives at a bar in Limerick and we decided to go hunt for some singletrack. We didn’t find much trail but we did [...]

I have camped in some pretty cool places over  the course of my travels. From the bottom of the Grand Canyon to Spanish beaches and I would have to put this morning’s campsite at the top of the list.  I rode south from Fanore after an all day singletrack wild goose chase. I found what looked to be [...]

We finally made it to Limerick, Ireland for Singlespeed Worlds. After a less than amazing travel experience, Scandinavian Jesus and myself put tires to ground  in Ireland today. Here is a quick rundown of everything we learned in the past 36 hours of travel. Lesson 1: Having a bike that doesn’t fit into a suitcase sucks [...]

I went to Durango, and all I got was this stupid picture. Like a dumbass, I forgot to put a memory card in my camera before the trip. The internal memory could hold six pictures and this is one of them. Four wonderful days of great friends(new and old), Telluride, Durango, and a quick stop [...]

100 degrees + Mounatin bike ride = Coors with ice at 10am Act like you know.

It seems that things have been pretty uneventful lately. Or maybe I have just been boring? I haven’t clipped into pedals in over 3 weeks and I’m OK with it, for now. I really haven’t felt the need to put in the miles since my epic fail out at the the 24 hours in the [...]

For our next round of interviews with folks who are attempting the Tour Divide, I give you Dejay Birtch, a man who has been a friend of DC since 2001 or so. DC: First and foremost, why would you want to do such a brutal ride? Dejay: well I guess it has the potential for being [...]

I spent yesterday morning on course at the Whiskey bouncing between aid stations with a bottle of Jim Beam and a camera. This is what I came up with: