Coffeeneuring Ride 7: November 6 “Epic” Portland Ride With Law School Coffee and Cemetery Descent

I don’t have a lot of opportunities to get out of town1,so as October turned to November I began to doubt my chances of going on an urban bike ramble. Happily, my wife and I made a trip to Portland and I caught a ride to school with her and brought a Brompton (hers actually). […]

Coffeeneuring 2023 Rides Roundup

More time on bike this month than most of the year, so coffeeneuring is already a bit of a win. This post started as a spot to write a personal note on dates/locations ride 2, then became a place for a note all the rides, and finally has evolved into a full run down of […]

Coffeeneuring 2023 Ride 1

Once again I shall attempt coffeeneuring; though school and rec soccer schedules are demanding, I always want to get on the bike more. Today’s ride is a 5.6 loop around town on the old commuter brompton between rainstorms, finished out with a double espresso at the always-great Vault Books and Brew.

It’s 2023 and I’m blogging like it’s the 2000s

That is, intermittently at best and not much at all, realistically. Please enjoy this photo of a joyful duck for your inconvenience:

Cargobike maintenance

Oh Workcycles kr8, you need some attention. No longer used as a daily kid hauler, you have been parked for a very very long time. Step 1 is diagnosing a front flat tire. I tried inflating the tire but could not get any air in. I pulled out the dunlop valve mechanism and was able […]

City bike on a farm truck

Not Brompton-ing for a daily commute but still bring it along for fun rides. This particular one coincided with a trip to pick up some fresh straw.

Coffeeneuring Ride 7: Cold ride with kids

We’ve had a streak of rainy days here; it was finally sunny yesterday but I was behind on farm chores, and hadn’t made plans for a ride. For some reason I thought I had another week. Luckily I double checked the rules and found out that tomorrow is the last day of Coffeeneuring season! The […]

I 🚲 Portland (Ride 6)

In contrast to ride 5, ride 6 puts me back in the city for a ride that is overdue in many ways. I’ve been in and around Portland on visits since 2005 when we lived hundreds of miles away. Nowadays I’m much closer but due to covid I think this year has been the longest […]

Farm trail Coffeeneuring Without Walls (Ride 5)

Zaiserama has a farm…and on this farm there’s lots of hills: My former bike rides in and and around San Jose didn’t have a lot of hills. There were hills around but I stayed off them for the most part since most of my rides were utility rides. It was flat, usually sunny, and paved. […]

Coffeeneuring 2020 Ride 4

After a bit of a wait, I finally got a hilly bike all set up for rides around my hilly farm and hilly region. I did a couple very short shakedown runs but today was my first ride out on the road, so of course I had to get coffee. The basket cried out for […]