THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO RIDE
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO RIDE
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- No matter what you do, there are rules, formalities, etiquette, and customs. They are there to show you ‘how things are done.’ But ‘how things are done’ can change and should change. No sport in...
THE PITS!
- TJ
- You know how you can be somewhere, sitting around a table, and the topic of ‘what is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you’ comes up? I don’t jump in first. I...
TELL YOUR STORY, AND EVERYTHING WILL FALL INTO PLACE
- TJ
- I am grateful you read my Posts. Really grateful, thank you. I never want to assume that if you read my Posts on DERAILLEUR, that you are also reading my Posts on DERAILLEUR AESTHTETIC. There...
PLANES, TRAINS, AUTOMOBILES…AND BIKES
- TJ
- I am writing this post on the train. I have not been on a train in a very long time. I forgot how nice a way it is to travel. The seat beside me is...
SENNEVILLE ROAD AKA SERENDIPITY ROAD
- TJ
- The first time I did this ride, I was with a couple of friends. They were visiting from out of town. I like to ride aimlessly. One of those friends is the absolute total opposite...
THINKING IT THROUGH
- TJ
- I am not sure how you ‘work.’ What makes you ‘tick?’ How you process ‘things?’ But I am hoping that what follows is something you can relate to. I have a problem focusing. I am...
THE UNIVERSAL THINGS THAT REMAIN SILENT
- TJ
- Cycling is funny, eh? All the things that happen. All the things that happen that you never talk about. The things that happen that if you mentioned them to another cyclist, they would know exactly...
THEY ARE ALL GONE, LIKE GONE, GONE
- TJ
- You know? This is the most recent post I have up on DERAILLEUR AESTHETIC. I read it again this morning. I was thinking it should be up on DERAILLEUR as well. It is one that...
I AM GOING DOWN
- TJ
- It is that time of year again. I am still riding the routes I have been riding all summer. Still riding as long. Still riding as far. Dressing warmer. Keeping an eye on the fast-changing...
MIC DROP
- TJ
- I have a post called BYOB. Build Your Own Bike. It is a short and simple post. I combined my favourite elements from the types of bikes I have ridden into one. It worked. I...
THE DISPROPORTIONATE RIDE
- TJ
- The name I have for a particular ride. The ride where the time riding is shorter than the time cleaning up. Mathematically, it would look like this. TIME RIDING < TIME CLEANING = THE DISPROPORTIONATE...
LEMON AIDED
- TJ
- I am not sure about something. Do I ride because I love to ride, or do I ride because I love the things that ‘happen’ when I ride? The things that have nothing to do...
…NOTHING
- TJ
- I have a personal rule when I am on my bike. I do not say hello to someone if I pass them. But I give a huge hello to someone who passes me. There could...
MATIN OU APRÈS MIDI
- TJ
- I love a good beach holiday. There is one part of the day that I ensure I am on the beach. Settled in. Drinks. Book. Friend. Friends. Snacks. 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM It...
BREAKING CHARACTER
- TJ
- I have some good friends. None of them ride. I mean, they have bikes and all, but they don’t ride, ride. They love one specific thing I do. I do too. It makes them laugh,...
SURPLUS VALUE
- TJ
- Five minutes after I get up in the morning, I put on music. Five minutes before I go to bed at night, I turn it off. Once or twice during the day, I do turn...
SURROUNDING ME WITH BEAUTY
- TJ
- There is something to be said about riding this time of year. It is the second week of October, and I can feel it. Better still, see it. It seems like last week that I...
LOVE LOCKS
- TJ
- LOVE LOCKS Here I go again. Asking the same question I have started many posts with. Do I ride because I love to ride, or do I ride because I love the things that happen...
HEINZ 57
- TJ
- I worked on the farm for most of my school summers. It was ‘hell’ then, but today I look back on it as ‘heaven.’ It was hard work. I have some great memories. There were...
RIDING WITH THE ‘CLICK’
- TJ
- This is going to be a tricky one to ask. Okay, I am just going to ask it. Is talking about bikes boring? ‘Ho Hum.’ Tedious. I don’t mean the rides. I can talk about...
TIMOTHY, THE ONE WHO APOLOGIZES FOR ‘TJ’
- TJ
- This post can be thought of as Part II to ‘When I Get Carried Away.’ I was writing that one and had some ‘stuff’ going on in the back of my head. It happened yesterday....
WHEN I GET CARRIED AWAY
- TJ
- I want to let you in on a little secret. Better still, a little trick. A trick that works. But it comes at a risk. A risk for me, not for you. The risk is...
A + B ≠ B + A
- TJ
- I like to write about the things I ‘take in’ on my rides. The things that ‘happen.’ That question I keep asking myself? ‘Do I ride because I love to ride, or do I ride...
UNDERESTIMATED
- TJ
- When I ride, I ride. By myself. In my own world. At the pace I want to ride. In the direction I want to ride. But sometimes ‘competition’ arrives. I am not looking for it....
SERENE
- TJ
- Stay with me on this one. I just got home from a ride. One of the hardest rides I have ever done. An accomplishment. Every ride I have done this summer has prepared me for...
‘PEDAL PANIC’
- TJ
- The name I gave the Video Game I want to put into production. I have not figured out all the details. It is all still kind of in my head. BUT I have a name...
COUNT TO TEN BEFORE PRESSING SEND
- TJ
- I follow a few people on Instagram. Not many. Designers, and a few Cyclists. There is a Cyclist I follow. I like him. He is serious about Cycling. He is also having a good time....
‘YES, I DID, THANK YOU’
- TJ
- I live on a great street. Really nice people. Some keep to themselves, and others stop and chat. I love both, as I can be both. They see me leaving on my daily bike rides....
NOISE CANCELLING
- TJ
- You know? I have been thinking about something. I have been thinking about it for a while. Aware of it for a while. I touched on it in a recent post, ‘#118 ALL OVER THE...
THE 10,000 HOUR RULE…THE TJ WAY
- TJ
- There is a guy I like. He says and writes interesting things. He says and writes fascinating things. His name is Malcolm Gladwell. I take lots of things from Malcolm. A good insight. A different...
‘SHIT, THIS PART’
- TJ
- I have many rides. I alternate them. I don’t alternate them. Some are aimless. Others have a destination. I add to them. Change them. Make variations. Go longer. Go right. Go left. Do one section...
DISQUALIFIED
- TJ
- I have a ‘pile’ of brothers. We are insanely close. Like close, close. When we were kids, we fought every day. But not the fights you are thinking of. They were not verbal. They were...
ALL OVER THE MAP
- TJ
- I love music. It is on the second I get up. I create my Playlists. A few capture many moods. A few capture one mood. I leave my music at home though. I do not...
THE YELLOW WARBLER IS MY CYCLING DOLPHIN
- TJ
- My main goal when I get on my bike? Get across the bridge. Get to the South Shore. Get to the countryside. Get to smell the manure. Get to share the road with a tractor....
I EVEN PUT MY BELT IN THE WASHER
- TJ
- You know? It is odd how things work. I wrote and posted ‘Simple Pleasures’ the other day. The beauty of the shower after a long, hot ride. This one is similar in one way but...
SOME RIDES WILL STAY WITH YOU FOREVER
- TJ
- I was in the middle of nowhere yesterday. Like the middle of nowhere. I went for a big, extra-long ride. The weather for the next day was 100% rain. I was at a spot where...
SIMPLE PLEASURES
- TJ
- I was thinking today when I returned from my ride. It was a good one. Not a cloud in the sky. Hot as #@/% 32 degrees. For sure, I ride because I love to ride....
THE BATCAVE
- TJ
- I am not a big ‘Marvel’ guy. I kind of lost track of ‘who is who.’ But there is one Superhero I have always loved. One Superhero I always keep track of. BATMAN There are...
CYCLING ANTONYMS
- TJ
- I get a kick out of something. I have fun with it. Only when there is nobody around. Something ‘The City’ does. Something ‘The City’ does to let Cyclists know they are going too fast....
OH MAN! HE DID FIND IT!
- TJ
- This is what you will say in your head after you watch the video below. I will let the video do the talking for this post. But let me give you a quick background. Montreal...
MAD MAX
- TJ
- I take my bikes one at a time for mid-summer tune-ups. I picked up the last one around noon. I headed out straight from ‘The Shop.’ I had a great ride. The day was perfect....
THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE
- TJ
- I love what you pick up on when you ride. There is so much to take in. There are endless new things. But there are also things you see often. People. Things. I like to...
IT IS NOT BETWEEN ME AND THE DOG
- TJ
- ‘Maybe this is as Good as it Gets,’ was about a guy friend of mine. Ryan. I mentioned I would talk about a girlfriend of mine in my next post. This is my next post....
MAYBE THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS?
- TJ
- I am lucky. I have good friends. They run the gamut. I am going to deal with one of those friends. A guy. I will make the next post about another of those friends. A...
HANG UP
- TJ
- I have been thinking about a sentence I wrote in a recent post. LALA LAND ‘You will only find LaLa Land when you ride without your phone.’ I thought I would get into that a...
MY OWN PRIVATE ETIQUETTE
- TJ
- Simple greetings. Simple gestures. Easy acknowledgements. Having manners. In my ‘neck of the woods,’ it is ‘Bonjour,’ or ‘Salut.’ Friends, strangers, it does not matter. I like to say ‘Bonjour’ and ‘Salut’ when I ride....
IS IT BETTER TO CHASE OR BE CHASED?
- TJ
- I like routine. Not crazy routine. A little structure to my day. I like to ride in the afternoon. I like to ride for the afternoon. It is a nice time to ride. Leave around...
LALA LAND
- TJ
- There is a town I love to ride to. Two towns. One follows the other. I would say I do it two or three times a week. It is that nice of a ride. There...
EVEN THOUGH I AM EATING DINNER AT 10:00 PM
- TJ
- I have spots on my rides that I know I should probably turn around at. Head home. They are not spots of any significance. They are just changes to my surroundings. The pavement changes to...
THE FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF IN THIRTY SECONDS
- TJ
- I stared at the screen for a while before I started to type this Post. It is a puzzling topic. How do I approach it? Flats. They are perplexing. Perplexing how they happen. Perplexing when...
ROADKILL
- TJ
- There is some heartbreaking stuff you see when you ride, eh? ‘Roadkill’ It is a terrible word for a poor animal that has met a terrible ending. I think that with the amount you ride,...
BUT KIND OF ‘COOL WRONG’
- TJ
- You know what is nice? Hmm, this is kind of hard to explain. June, 21 degrees, Tuesday, and not a cloud in the sky. You go for a ride. A big ride. A long ride....
It is ON
- TJ
- It happened the other day. It happens relatively often, but never this close to home. There was a guy at the light as I pulled up. We both knew once the light changed, ‘It was...
RAINCHECK
- TJ
- Sunday. 11:00 AM. Raining. Pouring. I looked at all my weather sites. Usually one is a little more optimistic than the others. Not today. It says 100% from now until this evening. I checked the...
ENTITLED Part #1 The Curtain Rises
- TJ
- Before I started writing this post, I took a deep dive into ENTITLED. I wanted to make sure I had a full grasp of its meaning. Is it the right word for what I experience?...
ENTITLED Part #2 The Show Begins
- TJ
- OMG, I opened Pandora’s Box with my last post. ENTITLED You may want to go back and read it first. It will give you more ‘flavour’ for what is to come. I am still trying...
ENTITLED Part #3 Behind the Scenes
- TJ
- I was listening to a Podcast recently. They referred to a study that a Group had conducted. It was basic. Basic is good, things do not have to be complicated. The Study was based on...
ENTITLED Part #4 Curtain Call
- TJ
- I was thinking of my last three posts. ENTITLED Part #1, Part #2, and Part #3. I read them over again. I was concerned with how I came across. You would read me wrong. Like...
NEXT TIME
- TJ
- My bike makes a different sound. It seems to be a sound that dogs pick up on. Dogs seem to have a way of picking up on odd things. It is something I have been...
I AM COMFORTABLE IN MY OWN SHOES
- TJ
- Stay with me on this. I am kind of all over the place. It is hard to put into words. There are so many ‘rules’ for cycling. Type of bike to ride, size, material, position,...
SENDING OUT AN SOS
- TJ
- You are riding along, doing your thing. In your own little world. A few people are cycling far ahead. Then you come out of your world for a moment. ‘What was that?’ Then you go...
OFF/ON
- TJ
- I am a positive guy. I am happy. I try not to let things bother me. I try to pick the right things to think about. Let things go. Acknowledge nice. Have manners. Say ‘hello.’...
A SUNDAE ON A SUNDAY
- TJ
- Do you have a ride that is your favourite? A leave and return from home ride? A long, on the verge of a whole day ride? One when you get home, you feel like you...
POOL NOODLES
- TJ
- Do you daydream on your rides? Let your mind wander? I think you do, whether you want to or not. A long, straight road with no cars. A back trail through a forest. Laps on...
FRIENDS YOU HAVE NOT MET YET
- TJ
- I will get a wave or nod from people I ride by. The problem is, I don’t know who any of them are. And I am in ‘TJ Mode.’ It is hard to figure out...
5% FOR HIM, AND 95% FOR HIS DOG
- TJ
- I put a post up a while ago. It is called SAM. The jest of it was that there are people you see on your rides. People not on bikes. People you see lots of...
‘IF YOU ARE GOING THROUGH HELL, KEEP GOING’
- TJ
- MIDGES! BLACK GNATS! THOSE LITTLE BLACK FLIES! They are prolific. They are in endless and countless clusters. There must be millions of them, just on your ride alone. There seems to be a certain time...
IT IS PART OF SUMMER
- TJ
- It is Sunday night. You look at the weather for the upcoming week. It looks good, except for Wednesday. On Tuesday night, you remember that Wednesday is not going to be good. You check, and...
IT IS HARD TO RIDE WITH A CONSTRUCTED CHEESE PLATTER
- TJ
- There is one ride I would put in my top three. Umm, it could be my number one. The ride you have after you leave a party. I had a beauty the other night. A...
CHIP, THE GUY EVERY CYCLING COMPANY ON INSTAGRAM USES IN THEIR ADS
- TJ
- You have seen him before. On multiple occasions. Perhaps as many as five or six times a day. Seven days a week. He has no name. But I named him. You have never met him....
THEY THROW OFF THE NATURAL AND BEAUTIFUL SYMPHONY OF A BIKE PATH
- TJ
- The first sign of a confrontation or an argument, and I am gone. Gone, gone. Like cartoon-style speed. A cloud of dust. I like it when everyone gets along. I like everything to be good....
BAADER-MEINHOF
- TJ
- I experience this ‘phenomenon’ now and then on my rides. It is hard to define it without giving an example. I had to GOOGLE my ‘phenomenon’ and see if a word came up. It did....
IF VIVALDI CAN BE RECOMPOSED, WHY CAN’T CYCLING?
- TJ
- I have been Cycling for years. But I came from a different sport. I was lucky, that sport set me up nicely to ride. There were ‘things’ from it that I was able to transfer....
A WELL-ROUNDED LEG
- TJ
- I am back. I am riding again. I started a few weeks ago. Right back into it. I even did something ‘daring’ on the first day, 100 Metres in. Funny, eh? It never leaves. It...
JUST A ‘THING’
- TJ
- There are ‘things’ that happen when you ride. You keep these ‘things’ to yourself. They would not mean much to anyone else. But they mean something to you. Nothing life changing. Just a ‘thing’ that...
WILD life
- TJ
- I like riding this time of year. I love riding this time of year. Spring rules. There is so much to it. You are so much more in tune with all that is going on...
THERE IS AN ‘i’ IN Tim
- TJ
- I played hockey as a kid. I remember one coach. He was good. Every kid was important. No kid was more important than any other, no matter their ability. He was a big fan of...
TRUST
- TJ
- I have this Post up on DERAILED COUTURE. It should be on DERAILLEUR too. Every so often, I like to look back at my posts on DERAILLEUR and DERAILED COUTURE. Check in. See if there...
I JUST WANT THE GOOD
- TJ
- If you spend a lot of time on your bike, ‘incidents’ are going to happen. It is inevitable. I don’t like incidents. I don’t want an incident. Incidents stay with me. They stay with me...
HANDS DOWN, FOR SURE, NO DOUBT, ABSOLUTELY, MY FAVOURITE BIKE STORY
- TJ
- Some wonderful things have happened on my rides. I try to be conscious each time one happens. Lock them in my head. Some people would call it luck. But luck has nothing to do with...
STUCK ON ON
- TJ
- I stay out of view when I train. I stay out of view when it is ‘ON.’ I like to be alone. I am at my best when I am alone. I don’t want anyone...
SHOULD I FAKE A FLAT?
- TJ
- The ride is over, and I am close to home. I am riding up to a light. It turns red. I stop. I know you are not supposed to listen to strangers’ conversations, but there...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
- TJ
- I have rides that could be labelled ‘dubious.’ But to me, they are the opposite. Trustworthy and certain. There is no way I could describe the routes in words. It would be impossible. Nobody would...
RIDE THE RIDE, GLIDE THE GLIDE.
- TJ
- You know what is fun? Gliding down a hill, and you start to pick up speed at the speed that you were already saying ‘WOW’ to. It is even more fun when it is a...
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD
- TJ
- The hot days. The really hot days. You have already broken a sweat, and you are just locking your door. You have not even started your ride. Ten minutes in, you begin to think about...
TRUE DETECTIVE
- TJ
- I remember being in grade school, and a teacher whose name I still remember said, ‘There is nothing wrong with silence.’ It took me a while to get that one. Now I get it, too...
…YOU JUST WANT TO RIDE
- TJ
- Is it okay to love to do something, but have no interest in it? ZERO. …You just want to ride. You want to leave it this way. You want to keep it this way. You...
THE DAILY WITH THE DAILY
- TJ
- I have a problem with something. Haha, I actually have a lot of problems. But I will just focus on this one problem for this post. I have a problem with letting things get ‘out...
CHECKMATE
- TJ
- Do you have the kind of life where if something is going to happen, it will happen in the extreme? I do. From my place, there are about three different ways to get to where...
WHY I RIDE NAKED
- TJ
- I carry the minimum when I ride. My minimum. House key, debit card, and a piece of ID. No phone. I carry the minimum for a reason. I like to make every ride, more than...
FROOT LOOPS
- TJ
- I love a good quote. A good expression. A funny saying. Complicated ones. Simple ones. They are good at capturing things. A moment. A thought. A feeling. A situation. They are good for making you...
MECHANAFRIEND
- TJ
- I had a little life-affirming ‘thing’ the other day. One of those where you say to yourself, ‘Ya, you know? I must be an okay guy.’ Corny, but you know? Sometimes you need the odd...
I GO 100KM/H INSIDE
- TJ
- I have a friend. A good friend. We have been friends since grade two. She is into Meditation. Really into it. She travels the world. You can tell she meditates. Just by her glow....
I WILL TAKE THE SWIMMER
- TJ
- I like to play games in my head when I ride. Location? Anywhere. Number of players? One. Audience? Zero. Just me. What would you do ‘ifs?’ Stupid scenarios. How to solve them? How to get...
WEAR IT OUT
- TJ
- When you are trying to figure things out, you are going to ride through some ‘shit.’ ‘Shit,’ you must get rid of. ‘Shit’ you can get rid of on your own, and ‘shit’ you can...
TIME FOR CHANGE
- TJ
- Have you ever thought about changing something? Not something small, something big. Like changing the way you approach your rides. Changing the focus. Changing the focus from distance to time. I think boat engines have...
WHOA!
- TJ
- You should be down. Down on the ground. Your bike on its side, and you on your side. But you are not on the ground. You are up. You are still riding. Your heart has...
THE TJ VERSION OF RISING ABOVE
- TJ
- It is such an easy thing to say. ‘Rise above.’ But it is hard to put into practice. It is hard to put into practice because when you are in an ‘incident’ where you mentally...
TATIANA
- TJ
- I did this other sport for a long time. I had a coach, Tatiana. She was from Uzbekistan. She was an Olympian. She told me that when she was young, everyone in the town she...
THE RITZ RIDE
- TJ
- Every year, I do this ride. Last summer, I did it twice. I don’t know what day it will be. I don’t know what ride it will be. I cannot plan it. But I do...
I HEAR THE THUNDERSTORM
- TJ
- I put a post up called STATE OF THE ART. I explained how an art installation on one of my rides changed how I look at art. This one is along the same lines. But...
TEN KILOMETRES IN, YOU ARE ASLEEP
- TJ
- Do you fall asleep the moment your head hits the pillow? I do, but I have a little phase every so often. It takes a little longer. I do not stress out about it. I...
EMBRACING THE FREAK
- TJ
- I have a good friend. She is full of wisdom, great quotes, lots of laughs, and oblivious to how entertaining she is. I am honoured we have a similar trait. She has embraced hers. I...
‘IT’S KINDA BRING’N ME DOWN’
- TJ
- I am going to slough this post off to ‘my current state.’ There is a song I like. It is an ‘oldie.’ A friend turned me onto it. There is a line that goes, ‘You...
OFF THE RACK
- TJ
- I am going to try and explain something. This may not be the best way to go about it, but it works. It happened the other day. You are in a store. You see...
BYOB
- TJ
- I think you have seen some of the photos attached to my posts. I don’t like to have my bike ‘front row centre.’ But some locations are nice, and haha, ‘if I just put my...
MERCI BEAUCOUP
- TJ
- I am on a kind of ‘Pilgrimage.’ It is a simple one. I am keeping it to myself. I am not preaching it. I am just working on it. I should have started a while...
SELF-MEDICATED
- TJ
- You know those days? The days when everything seems to be ‘off.’ It begins early. It begins as soon as you get up. You drop something. You spill something. A milk carton in the fridge....
TABLE FOR SIX
- TJ
- I got back from a ride at 2:00AM. I left at 1:00PM. I actually got back at 5:00PM. …Without my house key and debit card. The moment I checked my last pocket, I pictured them...
DRAFTING TABLE
- TJ
- Architecture is easy to critique, it is everywhere. Good, bad, beautiful, WOW, WTF, ingenious. Buildings in the city, homes in the country. You pay attention to it when you ride without really noticing you do....
PARTNERS
- TJ
- The nice thing about riding is that you are in tune with nature. It is almost like nature is kinder to you because you are on a bike. It ignores you when you are in...
RIDING THROUGH A BLIZZARD
- TJ
- The first one you see, you notice it, and then quickly forget. The second time you see one, you spend a little more time on it. You can see yourself putting your bike against the...
STATE OF THE ART
- TJ
- Rides are interesting, eh? What you get out of them. What you put into them. The way you ride. Where you ride. What you see. What you choose to ride. The things you notice. The...
THEY COME IN THREES
- TJ
- Sometimes it happens while you are stopped. Other times, it happens when you are moving. Your immediate reaction is denial. It does not last for long. You have a flat. There are times when you...
THE OUTFIT
- TJ
- Do you have a favourite pair of shorts? You like the other ones you have, but one pair stands out. You know you should have bought two. You cannot find them anywhere online. You want...
F1
- TJ
- I am not sure why it took me so long to write this one. It should have been in the first two or three. It plays a huge role in my rides. I end up...
2B PENCIL
- TJ
- I flew home for Christmas this year. I had missed too many. …Covid, Blizzards. I was not going to miss this one. I am now on the plane, it is all over. I am heading...
…NOT THAT I AM KEEPING SCORE
- TJ
- There are different types of rides. I am going to stress the ‘different.’ I am not talking about the pace, destination or the route. I am talking about what makes the ride different and gives...
I DON’T NEED A HAIRCUT
- TJ
- It is early afternoon. You are out on a ride. You know you have a few things to do. Things to do that have nothing to do with cycling. You do not have a specific...
CHANGING THE ‘DID’
- TJ
- One of the things I am working on is the two different kinds of ‘DIDs.’ I am trying to drop one and transition to the other. It is taking time, and I am still not...
TAKING A BREATHER
- TJ
- Every so often, I will click on the site. Read a couple of posts. I have not forgotten them, but there are little parts that I have. I click on the video and try to...
THE lululemon HILL
- TJ
- There is a good hill not too far from me. I call it the lululemon Hill. I have never really looked for the name of the street. You ride for a while on this one...
THREAD THE NEEDLE
- TJ
- It is good to have confidence in your bike and yourself. You know what your abilities are. You know what your bike’s abilities are. Then there are the rides when it gets thrown out the...
A TURTLE LARGER THAN SNOW WHITE
- TJ
- There is a white house with a black roof. I ride by it on one of my routes. It sits on about an acre of manicured grass. Off in the corner is a pond. It’s...
STEEPLECHASE
- TJ
- I live in a part of the world where there are lots of churches. Lots. None of them are small. They are all massive. At some spots in the city, there is one on each...
NOSTRADAMUS
- TJ
- Okay, I know this is a stretch. I cannot predict what I will be doing five minutes from now. But this changes when I get on my bike. I don’t know my Villains or Superheroes...
FISH STICKS
- TJ
- Do you have something on your rides that? Hmm? How do I ask this? Something that… Something that might be on the edge of a phobia. Something you are not too fond of. Something you...
THE CORKSCREW
- TJ
- It crossed my mind to not say a thing and just put this video up. It is all you need to see. Then I thought I should give you a little context and clear up...
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
- TJ
- Here is a little less than a thousand more. Short and sweet, not a big fan of photos of myself. I mean, I will look at them and all, but I will quickly move on...
HOUSE ARREST
- TJ
- It is raining. It is pouring. You are eager to get out. It is going to happen, it may not happen, it is happening, it is not happening, it is happening, it may happen. You...
DING DING DING DING DING
- TJ
- There are some long ones in the area I live in. Really long. Trains, that is. So long that halfway in, two more engines appear. They sometimes stop. Then slowly get moving again. You listen...
OH NO, I COULDN’T
- TJ
- It is a Saturday around 7:00 PM. The ride is over, you have said goodbye, and you are now heading home. You still have another forty-five minutes to go. You are hot, a little tired,...
YOU KNOW HOW CATS ARE, EH?
- TJ
- This one is nothing to be proud of. I used to do it now and then, but when the Pandemic was in full swing, I started to do it regularly. Going to the washroom outside....
S A M
- TJ
- Swinging Arm Man I swear if you rode past him, you would say, ‘WOW, that guy really swings his arms when he walks.’ I know SAM is getting the utmost exercise and all the power...
RIDING IT OUT
- TJ
- I hope you are a happy person. I hope you have things on the go that give you pleasure. I hope you have some good people in your life. There are times when things are...
YOUR TOTAL IS $17.28 SIR
- TJ
- You put it all on the counter. In fact, you are eyeing one more purchase before they finish ringing you through. A ‘Kinder Egg?’ ‘$17.28 Sir,’ the cashier says. Don’t look at what you bought,...
STRANGER IN THE NIGHT
- TJ
- You are sitting on the couch. You have the remote in your hand, and going through the channels. Then, out of the blue, you get up. ‘It’s happening.’ You get your bike lights and attach...
SHIT, A SNAKE
- TJ
- I say this in my head so often that I work on trying not to say it. I say it on a path I like. I say it on a path that I have been...
RUFF RUFF
- TJ
- You could be dying on a hill. You could be at your last breath. You could be chasing someone. You could be at your last kilometre. It does not matter, it always brings a smile....
Spy vs Spy
- TJ
- I used to buy MAD Magazine all the time. Oh man, I loved that Magazine right up until its end. You were always guaranteed a chuckle. You knew what you were in for. Each issue...
CYCLING CONDIMENTS
- TJ
- When you lock your door to head out for a ride, are you already excited to return home? It is not like you don’t want to go on a beautiful ride, it is just that...
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN RIDES AGAIN
- TJ
- Let me set the scene. It is a dark stormy night, and the power just went out. Haha, joking. Let me set the scene. It is a weekday afternoon. You are about halfway into your...
DON’T MISS IT
- admin
- I remember the day. I remember the group I was with. I remember exactly where I was. Out of the corner of my eye and across a field, I could see a spectacular home. It...
THE SOCK APPROACH
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- I met a nice elderly woman the other day. I was riding, and she was out for a walk. It was at one of those intersections that you seem to never get. If you miss...