Bikes, Barbecue, Boy Stuff
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Compost
It is that time of year when the leaves change hue. It is beautiful sight to see the Maple tree in our front yard show off to all of the other trees in the neighborhood. The Maple in the back yard is a bit more conservative in it’s coloring and draws far less attention to…
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Saturday Coffee Ride
We went on one of our favorite rides last Saturday. Minnetonka to the J&S Bean Factory in St. Paul. It was a 43 mile round trip, for an incredible Café Cubano. The plan was to ride my 1973 Fuji, The Finest. My current favorite bicycle. That plan changed when Ryan Cate, author of FitWell Bicycle…
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The Finest, Fuji
Fuji started importing bicycles to the United States in 1971. A few years ago I acquired a Fuji, The Finest, built in February 1971. I believe it to be a 1972 model. It had been stored upside down in a garage for many years. The Finest was complete and nothing had been changed…
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The Tour de Tonka 2014
Tour de Tonka This is a big bicycle ride put on by the Minnetonka, Minnesota school district. I have ridden this ride many times in the past. Of late I have not been able to ride it for many reasons. This year I got to be the Tonka Cycle and Ski goodwill ambassador and bicycle…
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Fair Hills Resort 2014
Fair Hills Resort on Pelican Lake Near Detroit Lakes Minnesota July 12-19, 2014 Here are my musings from our stay at Fair Hills Resort last week. We had not been back for ten years. We had a great time again. July 12, 2014 We just had dinner and now I am sitting on a cardboard…
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A Pair of Couples
This mostly really happened. A handsome couple came into the bike shop wanting to buy a gift certificate for one of their mothers for her birthday. The idea was to get moms bicycle tuned up. They figured a gift certificate was a safer bet than stealing moms bike from her garage. and hoping she didn’t…
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Nice Guys Finish First
Yesterday evening we went over to Handsome Cycles in Downtown Minneapolis. They were having an open house to show off Greg LeMond, plus his Tour De France winning bicycles and one of the new bikes Greg’s company will have for sale in 2015. Handsome was serving tall boy PBRs, Fox news had a very big…
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Lobster Boy
I enjoy eating crustaceans. The Alien ( my Mother ) claims that I could field strip a lobster by myself at four years of age. Believe that if you will. In days gone by our family would vacation in Old Orchard Beach, Maine almost every summer. That’s where I learned to love seafood. At low tide…
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Tube Steak Trouble
Back when I was a boy, our family would watch the TV show, F Troop. It was a western spoof set in the 1860’s. In the show there were hapless soldiers and a Native American tribe called the Hekawi Indians. They would all be involved in half-baked schemes. Their chief, Wild Eagle would always say…
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