Rides I’ve been on – on my own, with others, test-riding new bikes, trying new things
Three different wheel sets, in a turn, in slow motion.
I recently bought a GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition camera.
Here is an experiment I did to see the action of the tires on ground.
Jones in the Philippines
A few years ago I was invited to a bike festival in the Philippines. I didn’t know what to expect but it was certainly an opportunity I couldn’t miss. I am so glad I went. It was an amazing experience. I wrote about it in a previous blog post. And there’s a video taken […]
A testing ride with Tim
Tim (my photographer friend) and I went for a ride last week. Just the loop from the shop, around and back. The trails are a little sticky in places but they’re riding well. I lent Tim a bike to ride. It was his first ride on a fat front and he was impressed enough […]
Winter Solstice
My winter solstice ride/push. I rode a singlespeed with the big Bud front tire.
It was a good ride/hike. Quite a lot of snow in the mountains now…
After climbing the road and going around my loop until there were no more tracks to ride in the snow, I pushed and walked for a few miles […]
Taiwanese Road Bike
James has been out and about on his steel Jones again. The same bike he rode, off-road, in the French Alps this summer has now done some road miles in Taiwan. It’s great to see my bike(s) working so well. And James is certainly putting his to very full use. It seems to be […]
Target / Practice
I had a good ride Sunday. I took out the new bike I built, the pre-production steel Diamond with unicrown frameset, that was at Interbike. A few specification details; all the spokes, front, rear, left and right are the same length and are equally tensioned. The hubs have different dimensions but the spoke length […]
Jones titanium Spaceframe bike POV
Here is a new video with a view of my titanium frame. I recorded this on a mountain road/trail network at the end of one of my loop rides.
James and his Jones in France
James rides out of the UK. He sent me this account of a recent trip in France…
“We just did another bikepacking trip, this time riding between Geneva and Nice in the French Alps in 12 days. We bivied out almost every night and went a bit off-route following some amazing trails. Some of the […]
Jones in Japan
Here are two pictures and some words from a rider in Japan. He has a Jones… I haven’t corrected his writing much at all. He gets his point across and his English is infinitely better than my Japanese! He likes the bike.
“There was a MTB race in Nagano Prefecture on May 27. The race […]
Bicycling elective class at school
There was a bike riding elective at the school so we volunteered to help.
Before each ride we meet to go over the rules of the road and how to be safer out there…
Then there was learning to ride around obstacles in the bike lane…
A bridge over Bear Creek…
Riding past the pear orchards…
We stopped to […]