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The Westside Dirty Benjamin

Monday, June 21, 2010

There really is something to these DIY gravel races. On Saturday I rode the first (of many I hope) Westside Dirty Benjamin. We set out from Chaska MN around eight in the morning with a hundred and ten or so riders. The weather was fantastic, low seventies with cloud cover in the morning. There was a [...]

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Sunday Sunday Sunday (5/30)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

This Sunday, 5/30 I’m hosting a mill your way around the lake century (ish). There’s no clear route other than we will circumvent Lake Minnetonka. I’ll ride as fast as the slowest among us (although everyone should feel free to go off and explore themselves if they want to pickup the pace). We will stop for food, drinks and what [...]

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Weather for RAGBRAI 2009

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I’ve pulled this information from weather.com for the overnight towns. I’ll update when the 10 day forecast gets the last two towns. Looks to be cooler this year than the last few years, with perhaps more rain. I welcome the drizzle and cloud cover, hopefully we will avoid the downpour we had one day last [...]

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Sam Hillborne Update

Sunday, May 10, 2009

I emailed back and forth with Jay at Rivendell last Friday about my new bike. Unfortunately I’m looking at at least another two weeks until I get it, probably more as my experience so far has been that Rivendell has trouble with estimating how long things are going to take (Note I doubt this is [...]

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