Your place for the latest news in mountain biking is right here. Yes, indeed, you can hear it here first. The most recent conundrum for the hobbled subset of mountain bikers is the worry over lightning. Their question is if they are straddling what amounts to a lightning rod. It’s a valid concern when you’re …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
Prebiotic Pepsi
The swiftest way to get there is this: prebiotics benefit probiotics. Probiotics are generally thought of as the bacteria which best suit the human anatomy. Or, in other words, they are good bacteria. Prebiotics are the fiber that is good for the good bacteria. Pepsi is considering adding prebiotics to a new line of their …
Randomizer
When I’m feeling like a crass, trashtalking set of wind-up plastic teeth with an overbite and bad breath, I disappear in the lyrical music of words. When I’m loud in the quiet room and they make more noise in the process of kicking me out, it’s a beautiful contrast. Like golf socks on a water …
Word Traps
There comes a time in every man’s, woman’s, and child’s life when a word gets trapped in the brain. A trick might help get the word out again. But what is the trick? The words that have been stuck in my head lately are Superfluous and Extraneous. It doesn’t help at all that people at …
Nature Keeps You Healthy
There’s a fantastic story of a man who was out biking in Coquitlam, Canada, and while he was riding he met a bear. He couldn’t control his fear. His pedaling went faster than ever. He got himself away from the bear, but he was worried that the encounter may have stressed him too much. When …
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