I love my Siren SS. The bike feels as good and natural as anything I’ve ever ridden. Bike and rider blur on this steed. Yet, racing it in a geared class is a losing proposition. If there’s one thing I learned racing TransRockies on a SS, it’s that going with one gear is a major disadvantage...

In ‘06 we killed TR. It was the season’s #1 goal. Coming back for the second time we had no such ambitions. In fact, our sole goal was to finish. Of course, we were riding SS bikes - and to my knowledge a 7 day stage race has never been done by a woman and [...]

Last Saturday was the annual running of the Kaibab Monster Cross on the Kaibab plateau. We had tossed around several incarnations of how to do this one…how it ended up was that I raced, Lynda & the kids explored the North Rim, then the day after the race we switched roles. It was a blissful...

Siren Mary, Brendan, and Matt stopped by for a bit yesterday. They are on their way to Banff for Mary’s start to Tour Divide. Mary looks so good!!! Calm, strong, witty, she’s in a great space leading to this most epic of epics. We talked strategy and equipment…they even pulled her bike...

ooooooh aaahhhh purty

On Sunday Lynda and I set out to put in a fast time on the Kokopelli trail on our single speed Konas. The punchline: we both finished in record time, LW @ 15:21 and DH @ 13:19. It was a day of 2 Epic love! Here’s the nitty gritty. —————————————————...

We had been planning on going to DS&G all spring…clearly we didn’t make it out to TN this year. There have been enough curveballs of late to make a rigid schedule not so alluring or practical. Notwithstanding, I still had the urge to put down a race effort. It’s been awhile since...

We’ve been looking forward to RimRide for a long time. The plan from day one was to ride it SS, not hard, and together. After Vision Quest, 1/2 of 2 Epic had a tendon injury that made riding SS impossible…there were a few weeks when we just didn’t know what we’d do. Gears? Skip...

I’d set my bike up to race this one. From all the locals I’d heard it was a challenging and fun event. It was challenging and ironically it was the Vision Quest part that was the challenge not the racing part. A vision quest is a rite of passage, similar to an initiation, in some Native ...

VQ is done and I’m alive to tell the tale. The race wasn’t too bad but the bozo driving near 80 mph to the race’s finish, losing control, knocking a full-size pickup into mid-air for 3 rolls and then careening directly into us made it a full on epic day. But you’re here for the...