Fixie

One Speed Open

Posted on 14th May 201630th December 2019 by jdkrabbe

“The One Speed Open has risen from the tomb to save our lives”

Diary of a self-coached athlete

Posted on 1st December 20101st January 2020 by jdkrabbe

The past couple weeks of training have been relatively successful. Successful in the sense that I am once again able to be completing workouts. Success has not been marked by extraordinary speed or fitness. That is most-certainly not there, Taking 5 weeks off of everything due to my trouble with the Achilles has been a […]

The bike tree

Posted on 4th June 200912th June 2009 by jdkrabbe

We need a few of these on campus for all the commuter bikes.

BE: Bread Experiment or Bleeding Extremities

Posted on 3rd November 200829th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

The stories of the last weekend are worth mentioning… I wound up bleeding from both hands, one elbow, a knee and an ankle on Sunday afternoon after crashing the Surly on Sunday afternoon on Scona Hill. I was also successful in a culinary experiment on Saturday evening. Saturday’s accomplishments involved hitting the pool for a […]

The first 100 hours!

Posted on 11th May 20081st January 2020 by jdkrabbe

I passed the threshold of 100 hours of logged exercise for 2008 during the bike ride on Saturday afternoon. What does that mean? Well, nothing at all. Other useless stats I know about the last 5 months: I haven’t been on Cross country skis for 78 days. I am “twenty meters” short of logging 300 […]

Speeding on a bike

Posted on 9th May 200829th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

I managed to speed on my bike along three stretches of road that had different speed limits today. Unfortunately I couldn’t quite eclipse 80 kilometers per hour along the other stretch of road: I only made it to 74 kph. I’m sorry, I promise to do better next time. I wouldn’t want to set a […]

VLog – Last day of school

Posted on 11th April 200829th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

Video Log #4

VLog – Saskatchewan Drive

Posted on 16th March 200829th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

Video Log #1

Ready for some more snow

Posted on 29th November 20071st January 2020 by jdkrabbe

Riding the fixed gear has been a bit of an adventure since the snow really started accumulating this past weekend. Some insane lockups have had me scaring myself at points. It’s really be an interesting challenge to ride fixed gear in the snow, typically there has always been some brute force involved with riding bikes […]

Winter Fixie

Posted on 8th November 20071st January 2020 by jdkrabbe

Made the conversion of my Fixed gear today… for the most part. I finally got ahold of some presta tubes that fit the tyres I got. I got Schraeder originally because no 38 mm tubes were in stock… but of course they don’t fit through the rim. I’ve got things in line now and the […]