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.
New Bike Locker?
Here [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: bull run spring, el dorado canyon, sullivan canyon
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: Carson City, chinatown