The year’s first winter ride.
The Cold -> frozen ground = wonderful trail conditions + sunset reflecting in the rime = beautiful surroundings.
May the winter be long, just below 0 C and free of snow!
Attempting to straighten a bent wheel using two pallets, two feet, no common sense. What could possibly go wrong?
Renovo makes wooden(!) bikes.
I especially like the 29er. “It’l be a sweetheart. All hickory. Tough stuff, that’s what they make axe handles out of”.
Had an ever so slight crash in the forest.
Not paying attention does not pay off. It can leave you dangling mid-air with one arm clinging to a tree while the crotch of your shorts, entangled in the handlebars, suspend you just high enough above ground to make it uncomfortable.
Your thoughts become a mix between a frantic diagnostics routine, trying to figure out whether you are injured, and the equally frantic calculations of “how-the-heck-do-I-get-down-with-all-my-limbs-still-attached?”
Once I got home, got a shower, got some sympathy and established that (except for a blue mark on my upper arm that looked like the bastard child of Leela from Futurama and Homer Simpson) I was indeed a-ok, the broken brake handle was as serious as it got.
Climbing 450 height meters, sometimes on the back of your bike, sometimes the bike on your back, is worth it when this is the reward.
This view is from Bryggefjell, which lies in Bø, Telemark.
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
…
For tonight
God rides a mountainbike
