Best of Pedalshift 120: Touring Alaska

Ella Embree is a born and bred Alaskan with a big sense of adventure. Recently Ella was inspired by Lael Wilcox to tackle a new adventure – bicycle touring 1000 miles around her home state, some on a tandem. It’s all about touring Alaska on this best of, as we listen in on what she was thinking on the eve of the first leg!

Originally podcast May 31, 2018.

Best of Pedalshift 120: Touring Alaska

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October 28, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 261: A Game of Chance Tour – Part 2

As I said last time… sometimes bad ideas go good, and good ideas go bad. And then there’s the latest bonkers idea of a tour I had… a game of chance. In the final installment, we learn preparation can sometimes be the key to a good tour, or it can mean you carry a lot in your panniers more for show.

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Fall 2021 Tour: A Game of Chance – Part 2

Choice for this part include:

Stay on the WMRT

Westbound on the C&O

Eastbound on the C&O back to the WMRT

Stay on the C&O, keep going eastbound

Read some signs

Sundown coming – C&O bicycles, two campgrounds, or… <sigh>

I was all set to get up the next morning and do another leg of the tour but ended up having that nagging injury return, so I’m postponing the rest of the tour for later next month and OF COURSE you’re invited. We’re dropping the chance on this one because that made my head explode for what essentially was an out and back ¯_(ツ)_/¯

As always we like to close out the show with a special shoutout to the Pedalshift Society! Because of support from listeners like you, Pedalshift is a weekly bicycle touring podcast with a global community, expanding into live shows and covering new tours like this summer’s upcoming bike tour! If you like what you hear, you can support the show for 5 bucks, 2 bucks or even a buck a month. And there’s one-shot and annual options if you’re not into the small monthly thing. Check it all out at pedalshift.net/society.

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Andrew MacGregor
Michael Hart
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Brock Dittus
Thomas Skadow
Marco Lo
Terrance Manson
Harry Telgadas
Chris Barron
Mark Van Raam
Brad Hipwell
Mr. T
Nathan Poulton
Stephen Dickerson
Vince LoGreco
Cody Floerchinger
Tom Benenati
Greg Braithwaite
Sandy Pizzio
Jeff Muster
Seth Pollack
Joseph Quinn
Drue Porter
Byron Paterson
Joachim Raber
Ray Jackson
Jeff Frey
Kenny Mikey
Lisa Hart
John Denkler
Steve Hankel
Miguel Quinones
Alejandro Avilés-Reyes
Keith Spangler
Greg Towner
Dan Gebhart, RIP
Jody Dzuranin
Lucas Barwick
Michael Baker
Brian Bechtol
Reinhart Bigl
Greg Middlemis
Connie Moore
William Gothmann
Brian Benton
Joan Churchill
Mike Bender
Rick Weinberg
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Gary Matushak
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John Funk
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Ronald Piroli
Dave Roll
Brian Hafner
Misha LeBlanc
Ari Messinger
David Gratke
Todd Groesbeck
Wally Estrella
Sue Reinert
John Leko
Stephen Granata
Phillip Mueller
Robert Lackey
Dominic Carol
Jacqi McCulloch
John Hickman
Carl Presseault
David Neves
Patty Louise
Terry Fitzgerald
Peter Steinmetz
Timothy Fitzpatrick
Michael Liszewski
Hank O’Donnell
David Zanoni
David Weil
Matthew Sponseller
Chad Reno
Spartan Dale
Carolyn Ferguson
Peggy Littlefield
Lauren Allansmith
Eric Burns
Thomas Pearl
Darrin McKibben
Richard Stewart
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Music

You’ve been hearing about Jason Kent and his music for many fine episodes. Sunfields has a new album available NOW, AND Jason has a new solo album coming this year, AND his first solo album is now streaming on Spotify, including America, the Pedalshift theme. Go listen! And Jason is doing live events in and around Montreal, so go listen LIVE too!

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October 21, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 260: A Game of Chance Tour – Part 1

Sometimes bad ideas go good, and good ideas go bad. And then there’s the latest bonkers idea of a tour I had… a game of chance. In the first of two parts, let’s see how random selection of route, direction and more makes for a tour. Where are we going – chance decides!

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Fall 2021 Tour: A Game of Chance – Part 1

Choice for this part include:

Where (C&O, GAP, PA)

Starting point

Direction

Whether you have to listen to me reading signs

And more!

Music

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October 14, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 259: Fall 2021 Tour – A Game of Chance

We just got done with a tour, but it’s fall in my neck of the woods… so why not announce my Fall 2021 tour? On this episode I walk you up the mountain with Mookie and lay out how my next tour is really a big game of chance…

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Fall 2021 Tour: A Game of Chance

A 3 day ride that’s a true roll of the dice

C&O?

GAP?

PA road trip?

Like a Choose your own adventure but I get no choice

Random number generator in my phone to choose my path

Route

Start Point

Direction

Direction Changes

Stop or Continue?

And other forks in the road… all by chance.

Starts (hopefully) next episode!

Music

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October 7, 2021

Best of Pedalshift 152: The Great American Rail-Trail

The Great American Rail-Trail, launched by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy nearly three years ago is a proposed network of nearly 4000 miles of off-road trails linking Washington, DC to the outskirts of Seattle, WA. Back in 2019, we chatted with Kevin Mills of RTC to get the scoop on this exciting project and what to expect in the years to come.

Originally podcast February 7, 2019.

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September 30, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 258: Green Goblin Retirement Tour – Day 7 + Takeaways

The final day of the Goblin retirement tour featured a short ride, a three-bus journey from the coast to smokey, stormy and hot hot hot Medford for the flight home. A lot of moving parts… would I make all the connections? Plus… three big takeaways and an epilogue to the whole trip.

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Day 7 – Green Goblin Retirement Tour

Brookings, Oregon to Medford, Oregon to Seattle, WA to… WV

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Takeaways

Trust your skills – it turns out my lack of faith in my ability to fix that chain ended up stealing some nice riding. I had plenty of bus opportunities to catch up if disaster struck, plus that Better World Club “towing” option. Should have taken the calculated risk earlier.

Rushed the prep – two things… I didn’t go through my tools bag, otherwise I would have had a spare quick link on hand to make a better fix than a twist and a prayer. Second thing was I landed in Portland late and had to leave within a few hours of waking up. That was a bad idea… it rushed my nephew visit and I never could do a once over on the bike.

It is fun to meet people in camp again – I hadn’t camped with anyone in the same campsite, let alone had a campground conversation since the summer of 2019… on the Oregon coast! It was fun to trade stories with the guy from Korea and share the conversation I had last episode. Makes me realize how much we’ve all been missing in this crazy 19 months!

Music

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September 23, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 257: Green Goblin Retirement Tour – Day 6

Day 6 of the Green Goblin retirement tour was the final day of cycling the coast, maybe saving the best riding for last. But I have a history of mechanicals a few miles from the finish line… would that bad luck continue? Also: a campground chat!

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Day 6 – Green Goblin Retirement Tour

Humbug Mountain SP to Brookings, Oregon

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Thanks to Connor and Luke for chatting in camp – check them out at:

@connorwier

@lukequeiroz321

Music

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September 16, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 256: Green Goblin Retirement Tour – Day 5

Day 5 of the Green Goblin retirement tour was a return to the tour that I had intended all along. But while my amateurish chain twisting fix was holding admirably, was my luck going to hold on long enough to complete the tour all on my fix?

Pedalshift 256: Green Goblin Retirement Tour - Day 5

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Day 5 – Green Goblin Retirement Tour

Sunset Bay SP to Humbug Mountain SP

ALL BY BIKE!

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Music

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September 9, 2021

The Pedalshift Project 255: Green Goblin Retirement Tour – Day 4

Day 4 of the Green Goblin retirement tour meant the end of my extended stay in beautiful Newport. But would a snap decision that morning paired with my hack of a chain repair hold up for the ride south?

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Day 4 – Green Goblin Retirement Tour

Newport, OR to Yachats, OR to Florence, OR (by bus)

Florence, OR to Sunset Bay SP (by bike)

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Music

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September 2, 2021

Best of Pedalshift 076: Touring with Belle Starr

Last Monday we suddenly lost Belle Starr, who listeners may know was a dedicated and enthusiastic companion on more than a couple bike adventures. On this edition, we look back on her first big C&O ride.

Originally podcast April 7, 2017.

Best of Pedalshift 076: Touring with Belle Starr

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