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Pete is my bike. The etymology of the name “Pete” comes from delicious, rocky mountain brewed, Coors beer. When canned, Coors beer becomes reffered to as “The Silver Bullet”. When thinking of names for my bike, I thought of how it is fast, and silver. And being a beer drinker (not excessively of course), I …

I don’t know if we were quite prepared for what was about to await us on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge when climbing up Highway 1 from Stinson Beach. As we biked across that windy red symbol of man’s presence in the American West, the dichotomy between the open skies of the …

It has been over a month since I blogged, because I left the bike trip for a while to work for SWAE in our home town of Boulder, CO. While I was back in the homeland, I missed working on the road, going from town to town on my bike, only staying in places for …

Another day in San Francisco and the SWAE team was all over the city meeting with outfitters. Will and Al rode out to the Berkley area, while Bates would ride north to Sausolito and Bolinas. In Berkley, the team signed Explorers’ Corner, one of the largest adventure outfitters based out of the San Francisco area. …

San Francisco is laid out in a giant grid of arterial streets, side streets and highways. It has not taken long for the SWAE team to figure out how to navigate the roads in the Bay Area, although pot holes and cracked concrete don’t make it an ideal place to cycle long distances. Will, Bates …

Dan, Will and Elliott spent the day doing research in a coffee shop on Chestnut Street in the Marina District of San Francisco. There are over 50 adventure outfitters in the Bay Area, which means the next several days will be devoted to setting up meetings to make the process move as efficiently as possible. …

The SWAE Sports team will be spending the next week in San Francisco, meeting with outfitters, visiting old friends and exploring the sights and sounds of the Bay Area. “Adventures in San Francisco” will begin a series of posts and photos of my adventures in The City and continual updates of SWAE’s progress with Bay …

My first days of riding with Dan and Will were difficult, as we rode through Washington’s mountains towards Oregon. I rode with SWAE nearly 260 miles to Hood River in those three days, sore from long mileage, tired and dreading every moment I had to hop back onto my bike. The rides through Washington and …

We arrived in Crescent City on the evening of July 18. From my opinion, the town had seen better days. It was quiet, the streets were mostly empty and the only constant sound was a fog horn informing ships of the coastline along the bay. We were just passing through the town and I must …

The Northern California coast has the feeling of history that has refused to transition; as if time slowed down to create a microcosm of what life was once like1878. Walking down the bricked streets of these coastal towns, which are lined with Victorian-Era redwood framed buildings, one is left with the impression that any one …