FYI - Brown’s Camp is delayed in opening

One of my favorite rides on the west side in Tillamook State Forest is currently closed until April 16th.  Too much snow is the reasoning.  Bummer.

Always check before going:

http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/tillamookstateforest/

I picked up the bike I will be racing this weekend at the Mudslinger. The Titus Carbon FTM. I’m actually looking forward to it now. 22 miles on a full suspension trail bike? Ok! Let’s go get them! Hup Hup!
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I picked up the bike I will be racing this weekend at the Mudslinger. The Titus Carbon FTM.

I’m actually looking forward to it now. 22 miles on a full suspension trail bike? Ok! Let’s go get them! Hup Hup!

Hanging out at the bike show today. Today I went down to the Peadnation show to hang out with the guys from Titus in the On-One/Planet X booth.  I rode down on the Nano light and totally biffed the directions.  You see the show has been at the Convention center for the last two years and this year it switched to the Expo center. You could tell the people in the Convention center were use to the question and they didn’t miss a beat talking to some random guy in Spandex. So I mounted back up and rode over to the Yellow MAX line as I have never ridden to the Expo center.  I thought Interstate (like a frontage road) would go there, but was fuzzy on the details. I still am. The show had its usual displays and the On-One booth was right next to the Ryan Leech show which was a real treat. I got to meet him afterwards and he really is the nicest humblest guy to talk to. It was an honor. It was a good time and I was glad to be able to go. I am wiped out. J A dream catcher made out of a old bike rim. Great ideas abound at the show. These helmets are carved out a block of wood. Fairly ingenious.  Ecospeed makes an add-on to turn your regular bike into an electric assist bike. This was awesome to try out back behind the Expo. Start pedaling, hit the button and WOW speed! What a blast. 
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Hanging out at the bike show today.

Today I went down to the Peadnation show to hang out with the guys from Titus in the On-One/Planet X booth.  I rode down on the Nano light and totally biffed the directions.  You see the show has been at the Convention center for the last two years and this year it switched to the Expo center. You could tell the people in the Convention center were use to the question and they didn’t miss a beat talking to some random guy in Spandex. So I mounted back up and rode over to the Yellow MAX line as I have never ridden to the Expo center.  I thought Interstate (like a frontage road) would go there, but was fuzzy on the details. I still am.

The show had its usual displays and the On-One booth was right next to the Ryan Leech show which was a real treat. I got to meet him afterwards and he really is the nicest humblest guy to talk to. It was an honor. It was a good time and I was glad to be able to go. I am wiped out.

J

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A dream catcher made out of a old bike rim. Great ideas abound at the show.

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These helmets are carved out a block of wood. Fairly ingenious. 

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Ecospeed makes an add-on to turn your regular bike into an electric assist bike. This was awesome to try out back behind the Expo. Start pedaling, hit the button and WOW speed! What a blast. 

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I just signed up for the Mudslinger XC race on 4/1, no joke. I guess the joke will be on me, I put that I was a MTB Cat2 on my OBRA license when I bought it earlier this year. It means an extra 10 miles, DOH!    At least I’m starting the #30daysofbiking in style! http://mudslingerevents.com/mountain-bike-races/mudslinger-mtb-race/
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I just signed up for the Mudslinger XC race on 4/1, no joke. I guess the joke will be on me, I put that I was a MTB Cat2 on my OBRA license when I bought it earlier this year. It means an extra 10 miles, DOH!   

At least I’m starting the #30daysofbiking in style!

http://mudslingerevents.com/mountain-bike-races/mudslinger-mtb-race/

How Bikes Make Cities Cool – Portland. from @konaworld #pdx

ridepdw: #freedomnow (Taken with instagram) There is really nothing like seeing something you created being picked up and blogged and reblogged and instagram’d and tweeted. I am beaming right now.  What a cool feeling. -Jeremy Oh! and I have a ton of these stickers on my desk needing to go out in to the world. Go to http://store.zendoughnut.com to get one. I will also be walking around the PedalNation event on Sunday March 25th if you want one look for my beanie (see my avatar).
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ridepdw:

#freedomnow (Taken with instagram)

There is really nothing like seeing something you created being picked up and blogged and reblogged and instagram’d and tweeted. I am beaming right now.  What a cool feeling.

-Jeremy

Oh! and I have a ton of these stickers on my desk needing to go out in to the world. Go to http://store.zendoughnut.com to get one. I will also be walking around the PedalNation event on Sunday March 25th if you want one look for my beanie (see my avatar).

Source: ridepdw

Team Zendoughnut Store is Open!! With a flick of a key stroke and a signed contract the store is now open.  Get your 2012 Team Zendoughnut Cycling kit Pre-order in today.  The store will be open until March 31st.  The estimated ship date is 8 weeks out. http://www.panachecyclewear.com/store/zendoughnut.html The donation buttons are there to help pay for the cycling team expenses such as the kit design and licenses with OBRA and USAcycling.  The rest will go to the Children’s Cancer Association. Thank you for the support, Jeremy
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Team Zendoughnut Store is Open!!

With a flick of a key stroke and a signed contract the store is now open.  Get your 2012 Team Zendoughnut Cycling kit Pre-order in today.  The store will be open until March 31st.  The estimated ship date is 8 weeks out. http://www.panachecyclewear.com/store/zendoughnut.html Jersey pic small

The donation buttons are there to help pay for the cycling team expenses such as the kit design and licenses with OBRA and USAcycling.  The rest will go to the Children’s Cancer Association.

Thank you for the support,

Jeremy

velorazzi: Team Cthulhu kit 2012 In production (Taken with instagram) I look forward to seeing these out on the courses.
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velorazzi:

Team Cthulhu kit 2012 In production (Taken with instagram)

I look forward to seeing these out on the courses.

Source: velorazzi

Stub Stewart Presentation at Hillsboro REI

I am looking forward to this.

Hillsboro REI  - Stub Stewart State Park:  Mountain Biking Information Meeting

  • Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (PDT)
  • Presenter: Westside Trails Federation
  • Group Size: 40
FREE FOREST PARK! Stickers are in! They look AWESOME. Thanks @stickergiant! Buy now at the Zendoughnut store. http://store.zendoughnut.com/
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FREE FOREST PARK! Stickers are in! They look AWESOME. Thanks @stickergiant!

Buy now at the Zendoughnut store. http://store.zendoughnut.com/

If I could get a job building trails and support my family I think I would just do that for the rest of my life and be happy. Today I loaded up early and met the crew out at L.L. Stub Stewart State Park. It looked nice, but the weather was predicting snow.  Sure enough as soon as I got into the park big flakes were falling down. We did a little meet-n-greet/safety session and then headed into the woods. the NWTA has been building this trail and working with the park rangers for some time in this park. It was interesting to hike the trail and imagine the flow once it is all done. I can not wait to finally ride it someday. You can see the de-evolution of a trail as we hiked it out. The place where we started is almost finished and where we were working is uncut forest.  We had about 6-8 guys cutting through the forest floor and creating the magical bench according to IMBA standards that makes it sustainable and also fun. The trail we were on will one day be a XC ride with a bit of trail features to make it interesting.   After we finished up we went over to the area where they (NWTA) keep the ST240 Single Track making machine that was newly recovered from being stolen the end of last year.  Joe gave us a run down on the features and what it actually does. I’ve seen it in action and have to say it is a awesome machine. I can’t wait to one day be trained on it (yes, it will happen).  My body was tired and cold from digging in the rain/snow so I did not get out to ride the other sections in Stub Stewart. It will have to wait for another time. All in all it was fun to get out and enjoy nature while building something that my kids will eventually ride on. That makes it all worth it. Jeremy Side notes:      - Merino wool jerseys kick ass in wet weather     - I may need to get better work gloves, I think mine have finally wore out over the year.     - Blisters never feel good      - I need work boots 
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If I could get a job building trails and support my family I think I would just do that for the rest of my life and be happy.

Today I loaded up early and met the crew out at L.L. Stub Stewart State Park. It looked nice, but the weather was predicting snow.  Sure enough as soon as I got into the park big flakes were falling down.

snow

We did a little meet-n-greet/safety session and then headed into the woods. the NWTA has been building this trail and working with the park rangers for some time in this park. It was interesting to hike the trail and imagine the flow once it is all done. I can not wait to finally ride it someday. You can see the de-evolution of a trail as we hiked it out. The place where we started is almost finished and where we were working is uncut forest. 

We had about 6-8 guys cutting through the forest floor and creating the magical bench according to IMBA standards that makes it sustainable and also fun. The trail we were on will one day be a XC ride with a bit of trail features to make it interesting.  

After we finished up we went over to the area where they (NWTA) keep the ST240 Single Track making machine that was newly recovered from being stolen the end of last year.  Joe gave us a run down on the features and what it actually does. I’ve seen it in action and have to say it is a awesome machine. I can’t wait to one day be trained on it (yes, it will happen). 

My body was tired and cold from digging in the rain/snow so I did not get out to ride the other sections in Stub Stewart. It will have to wait for another time. All in all it was fun to get out and enjoy nature while building something that my kids will eventually ride on. That makes it all worth it.

Jeremy

Side notes:

     - Merino wool jerseys kick ass in wet weather
     - I may need to get better work gloves, I think mine have finally wore out over the year.
     - Blisters never feel good 
     - I need work boots 

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zendoughnut: Free Forest Park! Stickers will be available next week on the store. Here at Zendoughnut we love our dirt.   Whether it be riding around in circles in the fall listening to cowbell and drums or flying through the woods in the summer listening to the bees. While it is great to drive out to Sandy or to Tillamook State Forest to ride we would really love to have something closer to ride.  Forest Park in Portland is one of the nations largest city parks and covers an amazing amount of land (5100 acres). We want to ride it and enjoy it like the other trail users! There have been many attempts to open up the trails to cycling on multiple occasions. All of which failed due to random stalling or NIMBY’s blocking access. This sticker is a venting and an awareness tool. We could just ride the hiking trails at night like los banditos. But in the end that just gets us cyclists bad press and actually works against the cause. A simple sticker won’t change the world, but can be an effective tool to affect change. One of the cores of ZD is to affect social change. Here is one way we can help. 75% of the proceeds from this sticker go directly towards the NWTA our local IMBA chapter. They have fought for and have built some sweet trails for us.  Please help out and put a cool sticker on your car, bike, or dog.  Or click on the link and donate to the NWTA directly. Focusing on the doughnut, Jeremy NOTE: After the stickers sell through.  I will donate the moneys earned to NWTA and then I will be releasing the image above as Creative Commons Commercial Use License so others can use it. Free Forest Park! by Jeremy Schroeder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. I pulled the trigger and ordered up a bunch of Free Forest Park! stickers. Check out the zendoughnut store to order. 75% of sales goes to the NWTA for trail building and access rights. Please contribute and get a sticker. Jeremy note: Sticker are designed for indoor/outdoor use.
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zendoughnut:

Free Forest Park! Stickers will be available next week on the store.

Here at Zendoughnut we love our dirt.  

Whether it be riding around in circles in the fall listening to cowbell and drums or flying through the woods in the summer listening to the bees. While it is great to drive out to Sandy or to Tillamook State Forest to ride we would really love to have something closer to ride.  Forest Park in Portland is one of the nations largest city parks and covers an amazing amount of land (5100 acres). We want to ride it and enjoy it like the other trail users! There have been many attempts to open up the trails to cycling on multiple occasions. All of which failed due to random stalling or NIMBY’s blocking access.

This sticker is a venting and an awareness tool. We could just ride the hiking trails at night like los banditos. But in the end that just gets us cyclists bad press and actually works against the cause. A simple sticker won’t change the world, but can be an effective tool to affect change. One of the cores of ZD is to affect social change. Here is one way we can help.

75% of the proceeds from this sticker go directly towards the NWTA our local IMBA chapter. They have fought for and have built some sweet trails for us.  Please help out and put a cool sticker on your car, bike, or dog.  Or click on the link and donate to the NWTA directly.

Focusing on the doughnut,

Jeremy

NOTE: After the stickers sell through.  I will donate the moneys earned to NWTA and then I will be releasing the image above as Creative Commons Commercial Use License so others can use it.

Creative Commons License
Free Forest Park! by Jeremy Schroeder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

I pulled the trigger and ordered up a bunch of Free Forest Park! stickers. Check out the zendoughnut store to order. 75% of sales goes to the NWTA for trail building and access rights.

Please contribute and get a sticker.

Jeremy

note: Sticker are designed for indoor/outdoor use.

Source: zendoughnut

Looks like Portland’s model is expanding to other major cities. RE: Sunday Parkways Families riding bikes, children on roller skates and barely a car in sight; it’s hard to believe this is usually one of the busiest roads in Mexico City. It’s an eerily calm Sunday morning on the city’s Avenida Reforma, an avenue which is grid-locked on weekdays by tens of thousands of cars sitting bumper-to-bumper. The Reforma’s closure to to car traffic on Sundays in 2007 kickstarted the capital’s attempts to make life easier for cyclists. In 2010 a 17km-long bike lane through the city opened - and more efforts to promote pedal power are being unveiled in the coming few months. Via BBC 
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Looks like Portland’s model is expanding to other major cities. RE: Sunday Parkways

Families riding bikes, children on roller skates and barely a car in sight; it’s hard to believe this is usually one of the busiest roads in Mexico City.

It’s an eerily calm Sunday morning on the city’s Avenida Reforma, an avenue which is grid-locked on weekdays by tens of thousands of cars sitting bumper-to-bumper. The Reforma’s closure to to car traffic on Sundays in 2007 kickstarted the capital’s attempts to make life easier for cyclists. In 2010 a 17km-long bike lane through the city opened - and more efforts to promote pedal power are being unveiled in the coming few months.

Via BBC 

Source: BBC

Riding Scappoose. I took the KM out to Scappoose today to clear the head and get a little dirty.  I got up and tossed everything in the Element.  One of the good things about breaking the roof rack (twice) is the bikes now go inside.  This is the way it should be :) All packed and ready to go. Here is the deal with Scappoose: I get lost there every ride.  I should know the trails pretty well by now, but everytime I go it is a different season and every trail looks different.  I would say that I spend about 60% of the time wondering if I made the right turn, 15% walking or turning around, and 25% actual riding with intent. I love it though because every time I go I find a new route.  One day I will learn to link them all and flow. There are white markers that sort of point you in the right direction and they help out tremendously. Just look for them at trail intersections and go.  I would like to thank the blessed soul that put them up over the last year or so. One of those white markers   Playing find the Monkey [hint: standing in the dark] I have come to the conclusion after riding today that I am not satisfied with my technique.  After watching countless MTB movies and instructional videos I realized that I have become a lazy rider.  That is probably the reason why I don’t crash as much as I use to when I first started Mountain Biking.  In the late 90’s when I started I would come back from the trail every time either bloody or bruised.  I think I need to step up my game a bit and take the next step. After I fix my style issues.
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Riding Scappoose.

I took the KM out to Scappoose today to clear the head and get a little dirty.  I got up and tossed everything in the Element.  One of the good things about breaking the roof rack (twice) is the bikes now go inside.  This is the way it should be :)

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All packed and ready to go.

Here is the deal with Scappoose: I get lost there every ride.  I should know the trails pretty well by now, but everytime I go it is a different season and every trail looks different.  I would say that I spend about 60% of the time wondering if I made the right turn, 15% walking or turning around, and 25% actual riding with intent. I love it though because every time I go I find a new route.  One day I will learn to link them all and flow.

There are white markers that sort of point you in the right direction and they help out tremendously. Just look for them at trail intersections and go.  I would like to thank the blessed soul that put them up over the last year or so.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LkBQmW5R0Io/T0FmMs1NmhI/AAAAAAAAFaQ/3acck5SMkys/s611/100_3696.JPG

One of those white markers

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-q9FUbA2btFQ/T0Fl7ldWZqI/AAAAAAAAFY0/4FEsAzR2hOM/s611/IMG_0599.JPG 

Playing find the Monkey [hint: standing in the dark]

I have come to the conclusion after riding today that I am not satisfied with my technique.  After watching countless MTB movies and instructional videos I realized that I have become a lazy rider.  That is probably the reason why I don’t crash as much as I use to when I first started Mountain Biking.  In the late 90’s when I started I would come back from the trail every time either bloody or bruised.  I think I need to step up my game a bit and take the next step.

After I fix my style issues.

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Hooray! my OBRA essentials came in the mail. I almost fainted when I pulled it out of the envelope.  I thought for a second my number was going to be 1337 which we all know in Leetspeak would make me an uber hacker elite, but 5337 equals Seet in Leetspeak, which is lame.  I think OBRA is trying to say something here.   Seet A contraction of the word sweet, it is often spoken sarcastically and carries a negative connotation. The word conveys the most meaning when responding to a conversation that one simply does not care about, or finds silly and childish (Example 1). While the response doesn’t seem rude on paper, the word alone can make a person feel inferior and inadequate. Also, when used as part of a conversation, it can be used to show disappointment, or anger (Example 2). It can be used as an adjective, describing a specific situation, article of clothing, hair style, someone’s house or car, and so on (Example 3). While most users understand the sarcasm behind the word, some use the word as a replacement for the word sweet, and adapt it into their vocabulary. These people are called seetsters. Example 1: Alex: “This weekend I got so drunk I couldn’t even speak English anymore.” Kevin: “Seet.” Example 2: Alex: “Hey baby, I’m not gonna be able to take you to that movie on Friday night anymore. The guys wanna get some grub and go to the game.” Kelly: “Seet, we’ve had these plans for two weeks.” Alex: “I know baby, I’m sorry.” Example 3: Zach: “Whoa dude, look at Alex’s jeans today.” Kenny: “Who does he think he is, Tupac or something?” Zach: “Yeah, maybe. Seet jeans Alex.”
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Hooray! my OBRA essentials came in the mail.

I almost fainted when I pulled it out of the envelope.  I thought for a second my number was going to be 1337 which we all know in Leetspeak would make me an uber hacker elite, but 5337 equals Seet in Leetspeak, which is lame.  I think OBRA is trying to say something here.  

Seet
A contraction of the word sweet, it is often spoken sarcastically and carries a negative connotation. The word conveys the most meaning when responding to a conversation that one simply does not care about, or finds silly and childish (Example 1). While the response doesn’t seem rude on paper, the word alone can make a person feel inferior and inadequate. Also, when used as part of a conversation, it can be used to show disappointment, or anger (Example 2). It can be used as an adjective, describing a specific situation, article of clothing, hair style, someone’s house or car, and so on (Example 3). While most users understand the sarcasm behind the word, some use the word as a replacement for the word sweet, and adapt it into their vocabulary. These people are called seetsters.
Example 1: 

Alex: “This weekend I got so drunk I couldn’t even speak English anymore.” 
Kevin: “Seet.” 

Example 2: 

Alex: “Hey baby, I’m not gonna be able to take you to that movie on Friday night anymore. The guys wanna get some grub and go to the game.” 
Kelly: “Seet, we’ve had these plans for two weeks.” 
Alex: “I know baby, I’m sorry.” 

Example 3: 
Zach: “Whoa dude, look at Alex’s jeans today.” 
Kenny: “Who does he think he is, Tupac or something?” 
Zach: “Yeah, maybe. Seet jeans Alex.”