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Overnight, Boise To Montour

View Larger Map The forecast for this Memorial Day weekend features the possibility of snow! So the planned overnight excursion from Boise to Montour, ID will be postponed. We could do it but it's not designed as a test of endurance, it's supposed to be fun. At any rate this is the route. From Boise Read More

A Bike For A Bike Overnight

The weather looks a little sketchy for our planned Memorial Day overnight bike trip so it may be postponed one week. Not that it's going to be horrible weather, but it will be more fun when a little warmer. Maybe I should call this Fair Weather Bike Touring News? Sky King's bike is ready to Read More

Bike Overnight Reconnaisance

Saturday we decided to reconnoiter a potential overnight bike trip. East of town is a reservoir surrounded by a patchwork of state, federal and private land blanketing the foothills. Riding for about 15 miles from our front door on the highway and green belt put us at the top of the dam at the lower Read More

Alaska’s Lost Coast

Lost Coast Trailer from Eric Parsons on Vimeo. In 2008 Dylan Kentch and Eric Parsons rode and carried and rafted with their singlespeed bicycles across 300 miles of wild Alaska coastline from Yakutat to Cordova. If one were to look at this on a map and/or Google Earth they might not think it possible. But Read More

“ Hey baby, what kind of gearing you got on that thing?” What kind indeed.  I guess I got gears in the front and gears in the back. But how do I know what my "gearing" is?  One way to measure mechanical advantage on a bicycle is to use a concept called "gear inches". Gear Read More