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Bicycle News, Culture, and Lifestyle in Carson City, Nevada

Happy Halloween / Nevada Day!

Jeff Moser | October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween and Happy Nevada Day to all from the staff here at Bike Carson!
It’s been a busy week for me, and I hope to soon get back to the blogging. I did take a lot of pictures though, so hopefully the words will catch up with the photos before too long.

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If I Ever Get Out of Here…

Jeff Moser | October 27, 2008

…I’m going to Katmandu. 
In the meantime, however, I’ll share these pictures that Carson City’s Anne Macquarie took on her recent visit to Nepal.

Fruit Bike
Anne says,
Here are pictures of alternative transportation and bike business opportunities in Kathmandu. Actually, walking is the principal method of transport, motorcycles second, then cars, then bikes. Cars creep slowly through [...]

Friday Morning Circumlocution

Jeff Moser | October 23, 2008

Silver Saddle Ranch
My family recently went hiking out at the Silver Saddle Ranch. If you’re not familiar with the Silver Saddle Ranch, this park/working ranch is out on the Carson River Road, which takes off near the end of the east side of 5th Street.  As we were hiking the mostly flat, packed sand [...]

Group Trail Riding Etiquette

Jeff Moser | October 22, 2008

We had an incident on yesterday’s lunch ride, and it got me thinking that I should talk a little about group trail riding etiquette.
Tom was riding sweep, and had a crash in an off camber, sandy dip. It also pinch flatted his rear tube. Tom was OK other than being a little dirty [...]

Expedition into El Dorado Canyon

Jeff Moser | October 19, 2008

This weekend we had an Expedition into El Dorado Canyon. “El Dorado” loosely translates from Spanish into “The Land of the Lost Golden Trails”. To find this lost land, one must start at the Dayton Rodeo Grounds on Schaad Lane just outside of Dayton. Entering Dayton from the West, turn right on [...]

This is Only a Drill

Jeff Moser | October 12, 2008

This recent weather system came as a bit of a shock to the system. I had to pull out gear that I hadn’t touched since last winter. And even though I don’t mind riding in the cold, I couldn’t help but feel crushed that winter was upon us. Didn’t we just get [...]

Carson City’s Chinatown

Jeff Moser | October 8, 2008

There is a fantastic article over on the Around Carson Blog about Carson City’s Chinatown. According to the article, Chinatown used to sit along Third Street east of Stewart Street, but was finally torn down in the 1950’s. This is of particular interest to me, since this is right where I’ve worked for [...]