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Bike MS 2025: The Perfect Weekend
We’ve certainly had nice weekends before. September in the Midwest is my favorite time of the year, though it seems like the dog days of summer have been encroaching deeper into the month in the last couple decades. But this year’s Bike MS ride was incredible. Simply perfect. Of course, a 72° day doesn’t typically…
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Bike MS 2024: Riding for Rainey
I enjoy looking back at the weekend and sharing my musings with my supporters. It was interesting to look at last year’s post and see how much in common the two years had. The biggest difference is the hole left by a dear friend who lived with MS for 38 years. Rainey Fahey was such…
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2023: Beautiful Weekend for Bike MS!
If you’ve been supporting me for a while, you may recall my sad stories about the challenging storms that have plagued the Bike MS ever since 2018. So we are overdue for what most of us expect in September: beautiful blue skies with lows in the high 50s and highs in the low 80s. This…
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Celebration of Life: The Story of My Volt
I eyed the Volt since it was a concept car in ’08 before finally leasing my “dream car” in December 2012. An influential builder donated funds to his alma mater to build a solar parking canopy with an EV charging station on campus, and our company built the array and installed the station. At the…
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2022 Bike MS: Here we go again!
This year seemed to be an opportunity to return to some semblance of normal, with Covid feeling like it is largely in our rear-view mirrors. While I didn’t do nearly as much riding this summer, I felt relatively good and ready to ride. My long-time cycling partner Harold was in much better shape, having ridden…
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2021: Bike MS is Back!
The past few years has certainly been full of letdowns for the Bike MS event planners. Tropical storm Gordon caused the cancellation of the 2018 ride, and the second day of the 2019 event was also cancelled due to storms. 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic. So this year, with the Delta variant surging,…
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