Korey Pelton's Cycling Blog

I haven’t had the time to ride every weekend lately, and this chilly spring hasn’t helped get me out the door either.  But this weekend was fabulous and I was ready to go on an adventurous ride that would make up for lost time.  Click the map on the left to see where I went!  [...]

I have recently purchased an addition to my fleet of bikesdirect.com bicycles: the Windsor Tourist.  This is a touring style bicycle that currently sells for $599.99 at bikesdirect.com, however I hear that price will be going up soon.  Compared to other touring bicycles (Jamis Aurora, Surly Long Haul Trucker, Raleigh Sojourn, etc.) this bike is [...]

This spring, as any Idahoan could tell you, has been cold and miserable.  Everyone has been waiting for 70 degrees, but it is having a really tough time getting here.  As I write this, it is 1:00 pm on May 11, and the current temperature is 68 degrees.  Sigh. On March 30, tlp and I [...]

Tlp and I did this ride on Saturday, March 21, and it was a blast in two different ways: it was really fun and windy as hell! We took Bannock Highway out of Pocatello which does a slow, steady climb of about 1500 feet on Mink Creek Road.  This was a pretty slow grind, especially [...]

I was dying to ride my new Windsor Tourist that I bought a month ago from bikesdirect.com (I’ll post pics soon!)  So yesterday, I set out with tlp to do McCammon and back.  The temperature was a balmy 45 degrees or so, but the wind was blowing steadily from the south at about 15 mph.  [...]

Last Sunday, the 15th of February, the roads looked mostly dry, the temperature was 28 degrees Fahrenheit, and so I said, “good nuff!” and prepared to cycle to Inkom and back!  I was dying to get back on my road bike and do some hard and fast cycling. Here was the clothing I wore (from [...]

Last weekend I successfully replaced the freewheel on my Dawes road bicycle!  Here’s the full story. Once upon a time at work, I was boasting to my coworker, John Bickelhaupt (who also happens to be a long time bike mechanic), that I had put about 3,500 miles on my Dawes road bike without replacing a [...]

I have yet to perfect the art of writing as life events happen.  Usually, life catches you up in events to the point where there is little time for writing about them.  Alas, I have now found the time to write about the memorable things I’ve learned about cycling in October and November 2008.  :) [...]

I admit that I am a pinch-penny.  My family says I have a bit of Jewish heritage, so I usually use that as my excuse.  :-)  But, really, I bicycle because it’s fun and it saves me money in commuting costs and in vacationing costs.  Bicycling to work is fun and very feasible, and I [...]

Above is a terrain map of Inman Canyon near Inkom, Idaho (courtesy Google and MapMyRide.com). The path starts on Inman Road off of Rapid Creek Road and then it turns into a dirt jeep trail that goes up to about 6600 feet in elevation up the Portneuf Range, the same range that contains Bonneville Peak [...]