Sweet Christmas... Logan Paul may be (read: absolutely is) a useless idiot but the commentariat that’s losing its mind over this needs to kindly fuck off.

Both (but especially the latter) of those are Most Excellent Reasons™ to not get much riding in. Congrats on the wee bundle addition! :D

I don’t think I got out on my own bikes fourteen times this year. What a shit year. Ah well, the next riding season gets closer every day...

Instead of reading religious stories for Christmas, you can read books that explain the history of these holidays, such as “,” by Carolyn McVickar Edwards, “” by Wendy Pfeffer, or “” which explains some of the history of certain religious traditions.

as a Canuckistanian, it’s either steamboats or motherfuckers

I don’t know whether it screams Batman or Dick Tracy to me more.

Calling it a comedy implies it’s funny

Star Wars stormtrooper marketing vibes aside, that looks sweet. Looking forward to some head-to-head reviews against the rest of the middleweight segment once it’s out as I’ve been humming and hawing about which to get (hard to beat the pricing on the Tenere compared to all the other options though)

Fashion be damned: I have several in rotation for high impact HITT workouts to keep body tears out of my eyes. That said, outside of novelty events in the gym and Tough Mudder races, I don’t see many on anyone else anymore.

Excellent entry for Traffic Jams! I’m a big fan of GGP - stumbled upon them after a Bonobo binge session on YT years ago and falling down a music rabbit hole on the right hand side of the page

This is a favorite for my youngest and I to watch together so another season is welcomed. The only question I have is, FFS, Sam, were you beaten with Lego or denied having access to any as a child?

...followed by a new 6-episode season of Uncovered: The Swearing Cactus Story from CBC Podcasts

Nostalgia feels kicking in hard seeing this. The dad of a friend of mine in high school had this bike and I got to take it out a few times - the difference that tiny turbo did to boost power output over the rather anemic platform CX500 was impressive as hell.

That CTV News clip is peak Canadian journalism.

There’s a massive cemetery not far from my home which I both run and cycle through regularly: if there’s a service happening that I can see before entering the grounds, I reroute and avoid the cemetery altogether; if I happen to round a corner and see one after already being on the grounds, I turn around and head back…

That is awesome, terrifying, and more or less double the fastest I’ve ever gone on a bike which I can’t really comprehend

As an ex-pat Bluenoser, seeing this story on AVC makes me happy. Also, while Woody never bothered me, my youngest sibling was freaked the hell out by it XD

The hubris in his laugh though

Great write up, Beth, and I appreciate you adding in the kip and butterfly variants. Another variation of note is a chest to bar pullup using a “Double D” neutral grip cable attachment notched over the bar