Today, I got to ride my first ever gravel ride experience with my dear friend, fellow Saskatoon cyclist, and fellow comic book creator, Tim Brown.
It was a thrilling experience to ride on the Saskatchewan, Canada grid roads (unpaved gravel roads) and do so as a social with a good friend!
Photo of myself is courtesy of Tim Brown.
#Cycling #GravelCycling #Bike #Bikes #Bicycle #Bicyclist #Bicycling #Saskatoon #YXE #MarkAllardWill
#MarkAllardWill #yxe #Saskatoon #bicycling #bicyclist #bicycle #bikes #bike #gravelcycling #cycling
Any other #bicyclist bruise their coccyx? I'm having trouble sitting in a chair riding a few tens of miles this week. Guessing my seat pitch is wrong? Or something. Surely getting older doesnt mean I have to hobble around after riding into town
#ClimateDiary 4/3
Of course, the irony here is that the #jogger, the #pedestrian and #bicyclist all offer clues to a piece of the solution. Improved #infrastructure to support #GreenTransport. In the post 1 if you look down the sidewalk you can see a utility pole right in the middle of it. In post #2 in the #sidewalk foreground, you can see it simply ends in a dirt trail. In post #3, at least there is a #crosswalk, but there are no protected #bikelanes.
#bikelanes #crosswalk #sidewalk #greenTransport #infrastructure #bicyclist #pedestrian #jogger #climatediary
I drive a #bicycle #bicycling #bicyclist #cyclist
#cyclist #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle
Hey, friends. As is my annual tradition, I am supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada via my participation in the Waskesiu MS Bike even in northern Saskatchewan.
Please consider donating if you can. My reasoning of why supporting the MS Society of Canada, and why your donation is both important and of direct use, is outlined in the donation page linked below!
https://msspbike.donordrive.com/participant/Mark-Allard
#Cycling #Cyclist #MultipleSclerosis #MS #MSBike #YXE #Bicycle #Bicyclist #charity
#charity #bicyclist #bicycle #yxe #msbike #ms #multiplesclerosis #cyclist #cycling
Thanks to this new decal I added to my Fat Bike, it's now officially Metal A.F.!
Circle pits will now spontaneously open anywhere I ride this thing. It'll be pure carnage, beautiful carnage.
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #Bike #FatBike #Metal #HeavyMetal #Metalhead
#metalhead #heavymetal #metal #fatbike #bike #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #cyclist #cycling
I returned to live race commentary today on CADEsport, where we saw a real nail-biter for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on the second race!
Watch here: https://youtu.be/MN39MzoovQ8
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bike #RoadBike #RoadCycling #RoadCyclist #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #CADEsport #Zwift #VirtualCycling
#virtualcycling #zwift #cadesport #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #roadcyclist #roadcycling #roadbike #bike #cyclist #cycling
Managed to get in a cheeky Fat Bike ride yesterday! Deep winter riding is great fun.
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bike #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #FatBike #WinterCycling #Saskatoon #YXE
#yxe #Saskatoon #wintercycling #fatbike #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #bike #cyclist #cycling
Pleasantly surprised to find that I made it into a short (1-min long) technical video for CADEsport, where you can see me grinding away in my pain cave on my road bike and smart trainer set-up.
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bike #Bikes #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #Roadie #RoadBike #RoadCycling #CADEsport #IndoorCycling #VirtualCycling #Zwift
#zwift #virtualcycling #indoorcycling #cadesport #roadcycling #roadbike #Roadie #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #bikes #bike #cyclist #cycling
@Jennifer_Pinkley ...In theory, motorists share the middle lane with each other. When two motorists going opposite directions encounter each other, they genially work things out, with one or both motorists first carefully ensuring no #bicyclist is in the #ABL, and then moving over into the ABL to pass the oncoming car.
Just changed profiles to be amongst SFBA locals. #Cat lover, #bicyclist, #chemist. Hello everyone, hope you're enjoying the rain!
Inside West Suffolk's (UK) Maglia Rosso is the signed jersey from Graeme Obree's one-hour record in Oslo, a preserved Penny Farthing from the 1880s, and (what I think is) the owner's completion jersey from the LEJOG (Land's End to John O' Groats).
Beautiful place!
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #Roadie #RoadBike #RoadCycling #WestSuffolk #SuffolkUK #SuffolkEngland #MagliaRosso #LEJOG #GraemeObree
#graemeobree #lejog #magliarosso #suffolkengland #suffolkuk #westsuffolk #roadcycling #roadbike #Roadie #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #cyclist #cycling
Finally got to ride with my Dad for the first time since we became roadies (road bike riders) independent of each other, myself in Canada, he back in rural England.
We rode on the winding, tight rural West Suffolk (UK) roads I grew up on and came of age on both hiking and riding in cars as a passenger.
We rode to the famous Maglia Rosso café.
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bicycle #Bicyclist #Bicycling #Bike #Bikes #RoadBike #Roadies #RoadCyclist #RoadCycling #RibbleCycling #WestSuffolk #Suffolk
#suffolk #westsuffolk #ribblecycling #roadcycling #roadcyclist #roadies #roadbike #bikes #bike #bicycling #bicyclist #bicycle #cyclist #cycling
Finding these beautiful sculptures, inspired by track/velodrome cyclists, in the Calgary International Airport was a small highlight of our time spent stranded in the building.
#Cyclist #Cyclists #Cycling #Bike #Bikes #Roadie #RoadBike #RoadCycking #Bicycle #Bicyclist #Bicycling #Sculpture #Sculptures #Art #PublicArt #Calgary #YYC #YYCArts
#yycarts #yyc #calgary #publicart #art #sculptures #sculpture #bicycling #bicyclist #bicycle #roadcycking #roadbike #Roadie #bikes #bike #cycling #cyclists #cyclist
Yesterday, on the virtual cycling race I took part in on my smart trainer, the live commentator mistakenly called me "Mark Alpha" (because he couldn't see my name in full).
It sounds like an action movie spy alias. And, have I become somewhat mythic like John Mastodon?
Probably not, but - still - I am now "Alpha, Mark Alpha".
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bike #RoadBike #RoadCycling #Roadie #RoadCyclist #Bicycle #Bicyclist #Bicycling #MarkAlpha #JohnMastodon
#johnmastodon #markalpha #bicycling #bicyclist #bicycle #roadcyclist #Roadie #roadcycling #roadbike #bike #cyclist #cycling
I could holler about the ever-present tension between #pedestrian and #bicyclist desires, needs, and minimal safety concerns, and how the auto-industrial complex purposely sets us up to fight each other like playthings for scraps. Or I could just post this pic. Crickets either way.
After several months of saving up for it, I finally bought myself this Norco Bigfoot fat bike for deep winter cycling in Saskatchewan.
So fun to ride!
Canadian-made frame and pretty great international components on this Canadian brand bike.
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #FatBike #WinterCycling
#wintercycling #fatbike #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #cyclist #cycling
More racing fun on CADEsport with commentary provided by yours truly!
A new week means a new map, this time with the crash dynamic and steering mechanics back in-play.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/3KyeCvL7keM
#Cycling #Cyclist #Bike #Bicycle #Bicycling #Bicyclist #CADEsport #App #Gaming #Roadie #RoadBike #RoadCycling
#roadcycling #roadbike #Roadie #gaming #app #cadesport #bicyclist #bicycling #bicycle #bike #cyclist #cycling
Beth York joined me today for live commentary duties, as we began week 2 of the Pro Power Preview races on the new virtual cycling platform, CADEsport.
This week sees riders take on the Dolomites-inspired Cade Fondo course.
Enjoy!
#CADEsport #Cycling #Cyclist #RoadBike #RoadCycling #Roadie #Bicycle #Bicyclist #Bicycling
#bicycling #bicyclist #bicycle #Roadie #roadcycling #roadbike #cyclist #cycling #cadesport