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A Brand New Bicycle. A Brand New Life.
On November 4th, 2023 I purchased my first new bicycle in thirty-six years. That first ride on a properly sized brand new frame was liberating to my soul—this Brand New Ride reminded me of The Brand New Life I created. Instantly I’m taken back to a day with my daughter Olivia. I was shooting HI-8…
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No One Got Where They Are By Themselves.
Who is that person? You know the person who helped you get your life going. Gave you shelter when needed. Helped you heal—fed you. Other than Dad and Mom. Someone who inadvertently maybe paved the way for you. We’ve all had these people along the way. It is shameful to overlook them because your conscience…
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The Genius Of Smart Wool Will Blow Your Mind.
Not just for skiing anymore. Ski, Run, Ride, Hike Work, Smart Wools INTRAKNIT wool hybrid fabric is made for any adventure you can muster. Very cozy fits like ultra-light neoprene, excellent breathability, and sleek design. It reminds me of Ritchey Components’ stylized lines. Smart Wool and Ritchey define style, form, and function. I understand this…
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The Sailor. Don’t Miss This! It’s Free And Worth Much More.
This film is, the role model for any aspiring Film Maker, Documentary or not. Seamless storytelling, with the main character oblivious to the camera and crew. It’s magic for any storyteller with any camera when your subject stops acknowledging your camera’s presence. Save this in your YouTube Watch Next or Watch It Right Now. Watching…
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The Best Bicycle For Older Boys.
If your a senior citizen cyclists consider this style of bicycle moving forward. It’s affordable, stable, fast, a skilled maneuver-er, and a tremendously delightful bicycle to ride everywhere you need to go. You Test Ride One Of These And You’ll Ride it Home! This bicycle is the best all-around bicycle I’ve ever conceived. It’s stable,…
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I Give You—The Perfection Of The Vape Pen.
I ask of you is The Vape Pen not the best thing to happen to cycling since the inflatable inner-tube? For that matter is The Vape Pen the best thing since sliced bread? Or is The Vape Pen simply man’s highest achievement since the bicycle started moving humankind forward in such a positive manner? No…
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The Last Time I Saw Spencer We Both Had Bicycles In Our Hands.
Spencer Reap was my son. He was my best friend. Adultery, money, and our dysfunctional court system commingled with a sick mother/wife who took my family and best friend from me. It is hard to beleive someone I loved so much could be this cruel. Mental health is a slippery slope but navigable with enough…
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My Unconditional Love Of Cycling.
Love. A word. For some, a four letter word. Some believe love is some sort of tool. There are two pure forms of love. The unconditional love you receive from your children while they remain your children. A pet’s unconditional love? A different genre of love. A bicycle’s love is an all-consuming love you can…
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Boy and Bicycle 1965.
A nostalgic bike ride by a boy taking the day off from school. Directed by Ridley Scott, Director of Blade Runner, All the great Alien Films, Gladiator, and Legend are just a few of his stunning films. Is cycling good for your imagination? Two more fabulous Cycling Movies you might have overlooked follow. Starring: Lamberto…
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The Art Of Loneliness.
The most difficult job I’ve ever had is begin all alone. My family left me in 2009. Since that July day, it has been nothing but struggling against the maddening side effects of loneliness. When someone you love and the mother of your children tells you she wishes you dead, you’ve got to question your…
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Elders Are The Essence Of Our Lives.
Ski Cooper is a tiny Ski Resort outside Leadville, Colorado and home to the Tenth Mountain Divisions annual get-together. These men had bombs, bullet’s and grenade’s flying their way on skies, at night, in The Italian Alps. I had just walked through Ski Cooper’s front door as these Legends started singing this Original Tenth Mountain…
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Ninety-Four Days With No Salt And Pepper.
Yesterday after ninety-four days without riding my bicycle outdoors, I returned to the enchantment of cycling outdoors for ninety-four rejuvenating minutes of Cycleology with Mother Nature. Riding indoors is a fantastic option when injured or hostage to weather, but it’s oddly analogous to not seasoning your cooking with salt and pepper. A Kind of Flat…
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Healing Indoors, Tasting Europe and A Good Road Trip.
Training indoors and my reluctance to motivate hit the end of the road last week after rolling up on this YouTube Trail. I’ve glided this 30-minute peach of a ride 30 times in the last eight days. I just did three more laps. I’ve got to ride this route. I want to fly as close…
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This Peloton Was Once United.
When I was much younger this country was known as The United States of America. We were, all united peddaling towards our common aspirations. Then gradually, we stopped having common aspirations and ultimately replaced our everyday shared needs with individualistic selfish delirium. It was not The American Team but our American Team Leaders who betrayed…
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The Technological Frustrations Of An Unemployed Recovery.
Hobbled by a fractured scapula on November 24. Shady Black Ice, you know. Without cycling daily, my sanity is constantly tested. Without work and cycling daily, my sanity has been pushed to shockingly unforeseen boundaries. Ah, the affliction of loving my work as much as I adore cycling. Thus began my struggles with this unemployed…
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Meditation In New York City.
Meditation is a powerful tool I entirely discovered lately from Sam Harris’s Podcast and Waking Up App. Only today, realizing I unwittingly meditated my way thru my last New York City Marathon. While shooting this Burro Racing story, I encountered Lynette Clemons. Lynette, a world-class marathoner, recommended a Pace Chart laminated and tapped to my…
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Man’s Best Friend. His Father.
If you were fortunate enough to have or have had a Father? He will prove you best friend in life. I had a Father for almost eighteen years. He wasn’t perfect nor am I. His good parts were the best a young man could get. When he was gone I was devastated. The last the…
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THE GENIUS OF ZAPPA
No doubt about Frank Zappa’s revolutionary genius in 1963. Steve Allen’s genius skills as an interviewer, comingled with his dynamic and genuine personality, made this interview an excellent specimen of what an interview should be and a look back at live television at its best. Firstly the time dedicated to this dynamic performance. Second, Mr.…
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Electric Bicycles, Nuclear Fusion, And Heat Pump Systems.
The Future of Transportation, Energy, and Reality Is Racing Towards US. Can American Souls Lead This Planet Again. Every Electric Bicycle reduces our need for Saudi Oil. You know those guys we buy oil from that cut up an American with a bone saw and most likely dissolved his body with acid into a sewer.…
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The Brilliant Bicycle.
Cycling is. Essentially free. Cycling is free transportation. Cycling is free fun. Cycling is free healthcare. Cycling is exceptionally good for your health, physical and mental. Cycling is enormously pleasing to our climate crisis. Cycling is stress-free transportation. Cycling is always fun. Cycling is frugality on two wheels. Cycling offers unrestricted freedom in personal transportation.…
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Cycling, Freedom, And The Rest Of Your Life.
Rousseau said, “Man was born free and everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.” Freedom is an elusive notion to pin down. An elusive place to discover. Possessions possess you and consequently possess your freedom. Of all life’s possessions, the bicycle is the only one…
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At Five Miles Per Second, The Best Things In Life Are Free.
A bicycle ride at five miles per second. I Think Not! Yet the manners in which we live are far more dangerous, nonsensical, and suicidal than riding a bicycle at five miles per second. Even with a $50,000.00 helmet. This planet and all the life it created are miraculous. Believe whatever you choose. The god…
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61 Years Shrouded In Socialism. Staggering Through Stupidity. Surrounded By Seniors.
OK, I’m only 62. Since that July 1961 evening in Scranton, Pennsylvania. My appearance here. I sent no request to come here. once ariving, I’ve meticulously observed the descent of civil society. The insolvency of common sense, which onetime supported this teetering society. The demise of truth. The end of the common good. The end…
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American Idiots, Hungry Squirrels, Cable TV, and The Incremental Side-Effects Of Our Cognitive Devolution.
As I concede my senior citizen rank, I see just how far we’ve fallen as a civil society in just sixty-one years, with the last forty exceptionally moronic. The Republican’s forty-year dedication to the destruction of humanity is culminating in complete madness. A so-called man assaults a grandfather in his 80s with a fucking hammer…
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Cycling. A Value You Can Live By.
The life-fulfilling values encircling cycling can spin your life down unforeseen pathways changing your life’s value system. From training wheels in 1963, I’ve yet to discover any downside to cycling. Electrified Cycling Is Revolutionary. If you are not taking advantage of cyclings’ glorious life-affirming values? You are missing out on life’s most significant straightforward path…
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“My Dad Can Even Talk To A Plumber.”
“My Dad Can Even Talk To A Plumber.” This brilliance was laid on me growing up by one of my private-school-neighbor kids. I told him Darwin knew a plumber? His mindset sums up the unsettling state of mind running amok. It’s a mindset that’s led us here to a place where killing babies is justifiable…
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ReCycling Life With Two Wheelin Synergy.
Everything is pushing us. Pushing us to spend. Pushing us to work more. Work harder. Work faster. Live faster. Stealing our time. Rushing yields to mediocrity. I see only the rush of overwhelming mediocrity in the US. A Populus of mediocre lives yields a pathetically mediocre nation. Mediocre is a gentle word to describe today’s…
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Psychopathic American Exceptionalism. Indisputably The Product Of Republican Dopiness And A Derivative Of Capitalisms Lethality.
“Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy enable psychopaths to be highly manipulative. Nevertheless, psychopathy is among the most difficult disorders to spot.” Not Anymore! We are psychopathic in our treatment of our life-sustaining planet. Psychopathic about politics, guns,…
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“Exterminate All The Brutes” Details White Selective Ignorance and The Roots of All Evil.
Watch this Truth-Filled Documentary Series detailing white selective ignorance and its historic ignorance.
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The Miracle Of Life On Earth and How a Seemingly Intelligent Species Fucked Everything Up.
Does anyone wake to realize what a fucking miracle this planet is for us humans each day? It sure feels not! The balance of everything critical to human life is set in place by mother nature and the wizardry of this universe, yet we treat all these miracles of life as a disposable mayo-packet. Suck…
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Self-Propulsion. An Accelerating Notion.
I haven’t possessed a car in twenty-two years, so I’m ballparking here for your consideration. Hopefully, you will? Electrified Cycling Economics-101 follows. Annual Automobile Expense Calculations: Car Loan Insurance Registration, Taxes, Fees? Tires, Oil Changes, Service Plan, Surprises. Gasoline: 3750 miles @ 50 Miles Per Day For 300 Days Commuting 15,000 miles annually to work.…
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Circumcise Big Oil To Castrate War.
Oil is killing us. Killing us with cars. Killing us with enduring forms of pollution. Killing us with stress. Killing us with debt. Killing us with war. Idle bodies foster idle minds correlating to an idle life. Your vitality is idling away in a car. Jumpstart your life with electrified cycling. Help Humanity Circumcise Big…
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Cycling Drives Reality.
As self-inflicted extinction approaches it appears that capitalism’s sweeping ignorance has downright swallowed reality. When you lie to yourself to be part of a misguided group of know-nothings it’s a Red Flag. It’s on their faces embedded in the uncertain hate of seeded dread. Their real apprehension is fear of their lives propelled by selective…
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As Our Nation Yields It’s Intellect Cycling Merges With Sanity.
If you cycle daily you see the light. Cycling is advantageous to everything and every body. Cycling is the healthiest and vitally functional pathway of residing and blossoming on and with earth. Continued denial of the automobile’s utterly disastrous impacts on everything and every body is utterly cockamamie. Cycling will bring you to your maximum…
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The Greatest Tennis Match Ever Courted.
I had the benefit of sharing some life with Don Budge. Attending and working for his Tennis Academy for some years. It was the 1980 Wimbledon Men’s Final The Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played? Mr. Budge had a moderate ego for a legend and I’d attended many anecdotes from his 1937 Davis Cup Men’s Final.…
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The Vigorously Momentous Economic Common Sense of Cycling.
Cycling epitomizes common sense and electrified cycling merely accelerates my point. In a country evolving towards inoperable madness cycling is a road to sanity paved in common sense. Our occupational and automobilist lifestyles have engulfed us having driven everything we require for life beyond all tipping points. We can capitulate to these facts reacting with…
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Pedaling Debt While Vanquishing Capitalism.
Lifes nemesis; debt. Most ensnared in it. All stalked by it. Innumerable extinguished by it. Cycling is life’s most invigorating path to spontaneous debt unification while embroidering your life across its spectrum. Unquestionably cycling will dilate your spectrum on paths only discovered through forthright day-to-day participation. Humanity exists as a consequence of Mother Nature’s elegant…
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The United States of ADHD.
We represent a diverted, distracted, digitized, redirected, manipulated, managed, controlled, overseen, pivoted, sold, and coded heard of digital slaves. We are undoubtedly not The United States. If you don’t have ADHD Apple, Samsung and the others can provide it with a monthly service contract embedded with social media’s conspiratorial collusion. Now there is Zipperberg’s Metaverse.…
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My Life Defining Lake.
I was immensely fortunate to have evolved on this Forested Lake. Nestled behind this dam sits my pristine lake, cocooned by nature in every direction. This virginal lake banded in a 3.7-mile ovalish dirt road enveloped a living ecological encyclopedia furnishing all the schooling I required. Uncovering more of life, gazing at leaves, and trekking…
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Exploits Are The Sauce On Life.
I maintain exploits. Exploits amidst devotion, family, employment, adventure, education, and mere survival. By exploits, I mean work, play, and everything in between. There are exploits you must do and more preferably the exploits you select, the exploits bounding with imagination and specialty of your choosing. In a nutshell, pursue work you adore as broadly…
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Dynamic Encounters.
Laboring in broadcast news, specifically in the field can proffer an eclectic batch of characters. I dub these characters “Dynamic Encounters.” Jim Bishop epitomizes my dynamic-encounter-theory. It was dawn on September 12th, 2001. Jim was negligibly more than slightly upset with Osama Bin Laden. A few expletives later and something about his Castle cutting terrorist…
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The Ten Commandments of Cycling.
Take These Ten Commandments of Cycling. The Exclusive Way To Travel, Live, and Experience This Astounding Life-Giving Planet. Thou shall never covet an automobile. Thou shall always covet thy bicycle and ride it everyday. Thou shall never engage thy automobile when thou may journey via thy bicycle. Thou shall take Cyclings name in vain. Thou…
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Treasure Your Work At Any Price.
As I’ve witnessed life unraveling it seems comprised of work and play. Enjoying your work makes for a more harmonious life. Unearthing work you relish can be a pickle. Having manipulated copious tools, chemicals, and devices from cameras, stop baths, and servos thru flamethrowers, mandolines, and tricycles on this twisted road of vocational adventure. It…
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Rat’s Don’t Have Mice.
Rat’s Don’t Have Mice! My Father reiterated this when encountering self-absorbed hateful people intentionally misleading themselves shrouded beneath consciousness. History confirms Ivy-League Rats have no leadership or economic skills having brought this evolving democracy to its brink. So much at risk. Evidently humankind. With extraordinarily few humans concerned. Get out of your car now save…
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What A Wonderful World It Could Be!
What a Wonderful World will transpire when everyone pedals a bicycle. Visualize it! The pandemic proved the significance of these bicycles. As the cost of a gallon of death proceeds arising the bicycle will naturally lengthen its sound economic rootstocks within our culture. The immeasurable compensations of cycling personify common sense salubrious living. Alleged World…
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Cycling Is Life’s Panacea.
Panacea is defined as a cure-all. From my viewpoint, Cycling is unquestionably life’s cure-all. Cycling continuously renovates my day, my life, my soul, my points of view. Cycling is complete control with comprehensive freedom where the roads, trails, paths are subject to your interpretation. This liberating control and freedom produce a therapeutic healing horsepower for…
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It’s All In Your Head.
Regretful day at work? Go for a bicycle ride. Upset with someone? Ride your bicycle. Stressed out? Take a ride on your bicycle. Feeling depressed? Ride your blues away. Anxious? Grappling to resolve a predicament? Take a spin. Is your planet dying? Riding a bicycle will unimaginably change your world while helping to save ours.…
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In The Zone. How Did I Get Here?
Can you transcend yourself and subsequently your perceived physical limits of your body to find that elusive zone where effort is effortless and time non-existent. How do you know you’ve gone too far till you get there? In exercise/sport don’t allow the illusion of your body to distract from the true power of your being.…