Tuesdays with Dirty…and dan

…  he rolled into town, my goal was to blow his mind with trails, views, and the overall awesomeness of springtime in the desert. I …  for a little Sub24 overnighter on the Black Canyon Trail with a bunch of beer and some big dumb fatbikes. We stopped at my favorite …

Tuesdays with Dirty: Borderland Education

…  concerns. I live for it. I have shared some great trips with you. From the Yucatan to the southern California desert to stuff right in …  drew a line in the sand that is now our current border with Mexico. There has always been some kind of fence along the line but it was …

Tuesdays with Dirty: Snow, Sun, and Saloons Tour

…  come up with hair-brained ideas for long rides all the time.  But every once in a while a friend will come up with a good one too. This time it was Joe’s bad idea and all I had to do was …  of singletrack. Any good bike trip should start out with not enough sleep and too many beers the night before, and this was no …

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Tuesdays with Dirty: A year in pictures

…  share a fair amount of my activities with all of you here on this yellow page. But this year found me so busy (in a …  my never ending fight to beat boredom. Things like hiking without a bicycle. I stumbled across enough of these signs amongst the San …  I really felt. You probably remember the video I made with my fat bike hunting for slickrock on the shores of Lake Powell. But what …

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Tuesdays with Dirty: Last road trip of the year (part 1)

…  in October I was exchanging emails with Vermont Ryan about possible road trip ideas. I had such a great time …  it. Usually my road trips are planned out pretty well, with the goal of optimizing fun and not wasting time worrying about things …  a week before I was supposed to start driving I came up with my plan. I would only ride trails that I have never seen before and …

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Tuesdays with Dirty: Bookmarks

…  first three books I grabbed off the shelf had come along with me on some pretty great trips. I found it comical that the pieces of paper …  goal in life was to travel as many places as I could with my bike and “taste as much different dirt as possible” and I can honestly …

Tuesdays with Dirty: The Beer Century

…  have some friends that are into running like I am obsessed with bicycles and they occasionally try to mix drinking and running. It’s …  bad ideas” folder for a few months until I could come up with something worthy. Then one day it hit me. What about a beer century? …

Tuesdays with Dirty: Dopey Irony

…  slot. Enjoy… Not so many years ago my wife surprised me with a quick trip to St. Louis for a little gambling and a short lived bike …  famous Spaniard….doper Alberto Contador.  He chatted with a few Spanish television stations and signed a few autographs.  People …

Tuesdays with Dirty: A day on the river

…  is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. I’m not much for water. I find no romanticism …  but not in a way I am used to. This river was dry. With summer growing smaller in the rear view mirror, we are finally coming into …