Trail and Error

Step down a path with an unclear end

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“Loyalty: holding your teammate's insole in your mouth while he changes his shoe”

There is no greater love than this.

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Pivot Cycles: Performance Redefined. Mountain Bikes for XC, Trail and Downhill.

My heart rate goes down just looking at the fluid lines on this bike. The point where the seat tube intersects with the bottom bracket? Like a wave. 

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First lesson of 2016: Embro always. Tried to start the #RideStreak outside with bare legs like it's not January; definitely finished the ride indoors! #🚴🏻 #SeeThruGingerLegs #trainerparty #OutsideIsFreezing #EmmausBadDecisionsClub

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Holidays are for doodling. Adobe Illustrator: All of the details, none of the cleanup (although paint stains might go well with my covered-in-chain-grease aesthetic). #happychristmasharry #bikestuff . . . #fromwhereiride #doodling #cyclelife #illustrator #bicycle #paint #socality #wymtm #sketch #seekandenjoy #adventureon

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Coach got me on a schedule like whoa #Festive500 #mastiff #trainerparty . . #🚴🏻 #bicycle #strava #cycling #fitness #thesweatlife #qom #rapha #cyclelikeagirl #ridestreak #bicyclingmag #vscocam #meetthemoment (at Cleveland, Oh)

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The camera takes off five pounds of calf muscle #TheSweatLife #GearTesting #BlinkYouMiss #CycleLikeAGirl

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#BicyclingDogs know where the action is. The Whoops, #KutztownCX #CrossIsHere #adventuredog #cycling #puppy #adoptdontshop (at Renningers Kutztown Farmers Market)

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How to Make Great Impressions at Bike Industry Expos: Me: "This is such a sweet rig." #EllisCycles rep: "Yeah, it's Beyonce's." Me: "Beyonce's?! How?" Him: "She requested it." Me: "But like, how'd she find out about Ellis? Through the Internet?" Him: "What? Maybe, I'm not sure." Me: "I had no idea she was into road cycling. I mean, I knew she was into commuter bikes..." Him: "She always has been. That's what Deborah and Dave do together." Me: "Deborah? That's not her real name is it?" Him: "What do you mean?" Me: "Beyonce's real name is Beyonce." Him: "I said fiancé." Silver lining, it's my new mission to turn Beyonce into a roadie. #PhotoshopPrivilegesRevoked #WhoBikeTheWorldGirls @beyonce #FormattingInstagramTextIsImpossible #outdoorwomen #beyonce

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Singletrack days for the one-track mind #bikes24x7 #bluemountain #downhilling #iPhone6 #mtb #cycling #mountains (at Blue Mountain Resort)

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The heel of my right shoe started falling off and I nearly ran over an exotic bird but I didn't stop in the middle of those two climbs that always get me—and I got over my stubborn refusal to use my smaller chainring. SOLID RIDE GUYS. #bicyclingmag #younggrasshopper #friendswitheveryroadsidecowinpennsylvania #cycling #fromwhereiride (at Emmaus, Pennsylvania)

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The mud-battered pro men hit the barriers thoroughbred-style on Day Two of Nittany Lion Cross, the first race on the Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross calendar. The race, set against an electric '80s playlist and swimming with shallow water traps, would later be won by @BosmansWietse. #nittanylioncross #procycling #UCI #cyclocross #muddybadgesofhonor #nittanycx (at Lehigh Valley Velodrome)

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Fell in love at the Nittany Lion Cross race #shibainu @the_velodrome #procycling #nittanylioncross #nittanycx #cyclocross #crossishere #cycling #puppy #cute (at Lehigh Valley Velodrome)

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The stuff of bikepacking dreams #havebikewilltravel #bikepacking #cycling #bicyclingmag #pennsylvania #mtb (at Centre Hall, PA)