m i k e b r e v o o r t

We had a pleasant surprise on Thursday when my brother Joe called me out of the blue and announced he was stranded in the Denver airport until 6:00am the next morning. Jeanie ran up to DIA to pick him up while I finished up work and then headed out for the Meridian ride. […]

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The Wednesday night ride this week was at Centennial Cone, a horrible, worthless place to ride… honest. We had a good size group- Jeanie, Chris, Marni, Truesdale, James, Scott, Melissa and Tyler. The weather held out and it was even a little cool. That’s all for now. Here are a few […]

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Free Mandela Paris!
“…With cameras flashing, she made her so-called perp walk from jail to a waiting SUV by smiling, waving and strutting past the assembled masses in tight jeans and white stiletto heels. She ignored shouted questions, but occasionally said hi or slapped hands with sheriff’s deputies holding the photographers at bay until she reached […]

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Macgyver didn’t exactly keep it simple, but he certainly could do a lot with a little. He was (ahem, IS) the master of using what he had instead of focusing on what he didn’t have.
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In a culture that’s all about choices, we never seem to have enough and we’re not happy with […]

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Saturday I headed out to a friends house for dinner. Jeanie was away for the weekend, and his wife took pity on me. Instead of drive, I decided to take the new “rig”: Jeanie’s single speed with a pannier style bike seat and the Burley trailer on the back. I loaded […]

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[cruising down Apex, around a blind corner there’s guy standing in the middle of the trail. I make eye contact, slow and smile, he looks like he’s going to step to the side but instead throws his hand straight up traffic cop style]
Ranger Rick: STOP!
Me: Hi! How’s it going?
Ranger Rick: Didn’t you see me?
Me: […]

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One rolled over tractor trailer, thousands of gallons of cake frosting, and 13 hours later, we returned home from Winter Park on Saturday after the second race in the summer series. My race was 15.2 miles with 1770 feet of climbing composed of primarily all single track. Typical of Colorado the loop went […]

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Inspired by Bill’s outstanding Clydesdale win on Saturday in the Winter Park Hill Climb and by Plesko’s comment about him and Mrs. Pivvay doubling up on the same sled to enter Clydesdale, I’m trying out a new race strategy. Since I’m much heavier than Chris, I don’t need an adult to tip the scale […]

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Have you ever wondered while you are slogging it out at work what everyone else is doing at work? I was talking to the firm that built the AT&T formerly Cingular formerly AT&T user forum support site. It’s a forum that’s loosely moderated where customers answer other customers questions. It’s an ingenius […]

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So I race the first race in the Winter Park Mountain Bike series yesterday. It was a 5.3 mile, 2050 vertical feet mass start hill climb. I got off to a good start but then reality set in as my legs felt like garbage, and I could really feel the altitude difference. […]

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