I am going cross country skiing in one hour. It will be above 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and it will be much the same tomorrow, and so I will go skiing again. Then it will become really cold, and Old Bear…
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It is that time of year again when Old Bear comes upon “in between season”. It is neither fitting to be outside doing anything such as cycling or skiing, and yet there is rain threatening to soon become snow, not…
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Yes, the trip is long since passed. As I am fond of keeping statistics, I will summarize the trip by saying that I rode the bike 16 days in a row, a total of 876 miles, spending 73 hours and…
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[29 January 2013] Is a blog sufficient to chronicle the existence of Old Bear? It is now 163 days and still counting down, until I get on the plane to fly to Geneva for Route des Grandes Alpes, (“RdGA”), The…
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[Also November 5, 2012] Old Bear did get to the Black Hills, and Colorado, twice this past summer. There was that drive, a long drive back and forth, to get to Rocky Mountain National Park–with a stop at Jim’s house…
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[November 5, 2012] Old Bear experienced much this summer. Now it slowly becomes Winter. Every week, every weekend gets to be a question of whether or not it is time to rest, or time to get in one more, maybe…
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[May 14, 2012] Saturday last, I cycled 102 miles and computed that that included 6637′ of ascending. This was done at a tad over 16 mph, which considering the age of someone who has little ability to recover from the…
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I forgot to mention that my bicycle was indeed returned from the Serotta “factory”. On April 30th, my favorite bike mechanic Scott called from County Cycles and told me that he had just got a call from the Serotta people and…
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As stated on another web page (of mine) elsewhere As it happens, I have read a book called Younger Next Year, which seems to have, behind its almost infomercial style, an appealing approach to us “more experienced” people to avoid “decay”…
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[April 24, 2012] I have this year begun the study of Eischens Yoga (after the late Roger Eischens), taking a 1.5 hour class once a week. I have also begun to re-think how to ride a bike, not only up…
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