This weekend, Meg and I mixed hiking and biking instead of just biking everywhere. The view and feeling at the top of the hill above Dillon Reservoir Dillon Reservoir Loop Dillon, Frisco, Silverthorne, and UNNAMED_MUNICIPALITY Our first stop was the Dillon Reservoir, where we enjoyed a quick coffee and a mostly...

This weekend's bike trip in Lake County was a little different from our past bike trips. I learned: some valuable lessons about charging your bike lights that Mandarb (my 1990s steel mountain bike) can handle just about any terrain I can throw at him that a 13% grade is just about the steepest hill I can climb on...

Last weekend, Meg and I embarked on our first majority non-pavement bicycle trip. No, we didn't take the bikes on water -- we decided to give the rural dirt and gravel roads in Steamboat Springs a try. reason 1,789,563 springtime is a gem in CO I've been riding a modernized steel 90s mountain bike ever since Meg and...

This weekend, I tried something new. I took a bike ride down the Rio Grande trail all the way from Glenwood Springs to Aspen. Meg and I spend a lot of time biking around the Denver metro area, which is generally amazing. While the Denver metro area has a fantastic network of bike paths, pleasant flat grades, almost...

Most people don't know a whole lot about espresso. That's OK -- like car enthusiasts, sailboat racers, or video game speedrunners, espresso makers inhabit a highly niche space in our world. After all, your average human is happy enough with the coffee that comes out of a poorly calibrated drip machine using stale...